Sentences with phrase «in modelling assumptions»

We all use fairly similar methods but with some differences in modelling assumptions and scope of data sources.

The trends in CH4 and N2O emissions are largely due to differences in the assumed climate policy along with differences in model assumptions (Fig. 6).

Not exact matches

Even when two valuators do agree on the methodology, they may vary on the assumptions used in that model and then arrive at very different values for the firm.

«There's this assumption that the scoring model doesn't see an account anymore after it's closed,» explains John Ulzheimer, credit expert at CreditSesame.com, «but even closed accounts are still considered in your score.»

It is essential that the right financial model be used and that correct assumptions be made in forecasting the anticipated benefits, costs and returns of the new value proposition being considered.

Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104).

Using our interactive models, we find that using our $ 43 target as a take - out price, fairly conservative deal structures and synergy assumptions could result in an accretive deal for direct peers or regional banks, although given the more obvious scale synergies possible with peers the accretion potential would seem higher for that group.

«Our traditional assumptions of ownership are really frustrated by these digital distribution models,» said Aaron Perzanowski, an associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Mundell's model was extremely simple and included a number of heroic assumptions, but it accurately reflected important elements of the world in which open economies operate.

One implication of that particular model was that a 1 % increase in interest rates would send stocks plummeting by 50 %, but nobody brought that up because nobody took the time to examine the assumptions of the model seriously.

I think Joan has explained repeatedly what we see as the bands for growth, with a 10 - year model, with a stock price somewhere around — you know, in terms of assumptions that we've used — $ 85 stock price with another $ 25 to $ 30 of cash income.

anything that is held as a store of value willingly can not be used to tie down the price level path (except via strong modeling assumption likes the last period exchange of real debt for real goods in the FTPL for example).

Rather than telling prospective investors, depositors or others that they're worth, banks can use Enron - style «mark - to - model» accounting to say that their stock's book value is whatever in - house model - builders want to say they're worth, on whatever blue - sky assumptions they choose.

Moreover, I am sceptical of many of the underlying assumptions and calibrations in these models.

If any of the assumptions used in the Black - Scholes model change significantly, stock - based compensation expense may differ materially in the future from that recorded in the current period.

It is clear from the model, however, that without a major change or disruption in policymaking, current debt dynamics will be hard to sustain, even with assumptions underlying the logic that are very conservative.

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphones; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the Company's BlackBerry 7 and 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

«The thing about mathematical modelling is that in order to make problems tractable, you need to make assumptions.

SUMMARY Mean - reversion has not performed well over the last few years Highly sensitive to model assumptions The strategy is an attractive addition for an equity - centric portfolio INTRODUCTION According to Benjamin Franklin death and taxes are the only two certainties in life.

In addition, the calculations can be performed with fewer assumptions and less effort than fancy valuation models like discounted cash flow analysis (DCF).

Develop modeling instincts so modelers know what assumptions are reasonable and likely to result in dependable results, and what parameter ranges are realistic to account for invariable deviations of reality from models.

At Valuentum, we often use a discounted cash - flow model as a means to back into the current share price of firms in order to ascertain whether the market is unfairly pricing their stock relative to reasonable long - term growth and profitability assumptions.

The assumptions that we make in running our models inject uncertainty throughout the policy - making process.

When you say «Copernicanism», are you referring to the heliocentric model of the solar system — which David's post discussed — or are you referring more broadly to the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe?

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.

Process - theological models stand generally under the cosmological assumption of an infinite process of the production of always new events without end and aim — an assumption, to which Whitehead gave the name of the «remorseless working of things in Greek and Buddhist thought» (PR 244).

The training we receive in the scientific method and model construction habituates us to making certain assumptions about who we are and how we relate to nature.

In that role we share the thrill of discovery, and model the courage and humility necessary for letting go an old assumption in order to receive something neIn that role we share the thrill of discovery, and model the courage and humility necessary for letting go an old assumption in order to receive something nein order to receive something new.

However, in a very subtle and persistent way the assumption of the primacy of primary qualities, or some noumenal substrate modeled on them, continues to affect much of our thinking today.

In practice, as we have seen, they offer no real alternative but instead operate with many of the same assumptions and techniques as the psychological model.

In contrast, MacKinnon's model is founded on the assumption that a human male can not achieve his sexual objectives unless the physical, psychological, and / or social context of the act is nonconsensual.

In previous chapters it has been suggested that the basic assumptions of a paradigm community influence its choice of models.

In addition to confirmation by leading evolutionary biologists and anthropologists, the behavioral goal assumptions underpinning George's model are also surprisingly consistent with feminist social analysis.

In the origination of a novel theory the scientist may propose a model incorporating analogies drawn from several familiar situations, together with radically new assumptions.

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

We know that these three kinds of ministry of the New Testament epoch were modeled in part on Jewish and pagan precedents and we shall take note of the extent to which they were elaborated in self - conscious polemical parallelism alongside these rival institutions on the assumption that Christians were the militia of Christ under the heavenly Emperor and the true or new and ongoing Israel of God.

In retrospect, the decision to reject Facebook, Google and Twitter embeds sounds familiar, since the Clinton campaign had so much faith in its own decisions and data models that staff routinely ignored information that went against their assumptionIn retrospect, the decision to reject Facebook, Google and Twitter embeds sounds familiar, since the Clinton campaign had so much faith in its own decisions and data models that staff routinely ignored information that went against their assumptionin its own decisions and data models that staff routinely ignored information that went against their assumptions:

In an extended version of this work, I use econometric modelling — a time - series cross-sectional approach — to provide evidence of this assumption.

One of these was the rationality of the actors involved; another was the assumption of informed self - interest (which entailed rational preference formulation); and additionally, these models sought to understand economics through the interaction of individuals in market conditions.

Moreover, it closely mirrors the theoretical approaches in economics: it is a model which utilises relatively basic assumptions about human behaviour in a stylised choice setting in order to draw conclusions about individual preferences.

RE: Just a little piecprsteve on the credibility of the authors of the study: Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real - world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

As with most political science models, the Nomination Game is a tool for helping us think, but makes some assumptions that might not play out in the real world.

In short, they plugged a bunch of current numbers and assumptions into the model, ran it out past 75 years until it reached some kind of stability, and reported that number.

These developments could also significantly affect the assumptions about the nature and extent of travel growth Government makes in transport models and appraisal.

Whether by accident or design, complex mathematics often obscures flawed or simplistic assumptions in financial models.

Nevertheless, agency models embody the assumptions most common in the design of modern supervisory arrangements.