Sentences with phrase «in normal curve»

Students» gains were calculated on the basis of the change in normal curve equivalent scores from the pre-test to the post-test.

Not exact matches

The Curve card works just like a normal bank card, anywhere in the world that accepts Mastercard - with contactless, chip & pin and magstripe.

Particularly good to see someone explain that the impact on bond funds is not the simplistic «1 % rise in bank rates means loss of duration %» but depends on the interest demanded at that point in the curve and normal supply / demand issues which are massively distorted for linkers.

With a normal yield curve, bond buyers essentially demand a higher rate of interest in order to lend money for 30 years than they will to loan money for 30 days since they will be locking up their money for a longer period of time.

When large segments of the population, like the children in a school system, for example, are tested, it is found that their abilities are distributed fairly consistently along what has been called the normal, or bell - shaped curve.

That didn't do the Heels too many favors — they were 72nd in Rushing S&P +, 95th in rushing success rate, and 120th in stuff rate (run stops at or behind the line)-- but assuming a normal developmental curve, that could mean improvement.

There are clearly some outliers, but you can see the pattern of a normal bell curve in both graphs.

While they may be at opposite ends of the bell curve, they are both normal even if one is in the 10th percentile and the other is in the 90th percentile.

This may be normal, because breastfed babies do not grow along the same growth curves as formula fed babies, and it may appear that they grow too slowly, when in fact, it is the formula fed baby who is growing too quickly.

Traditionally, women used to use the normal pillow to place between their legs and all around themselves, all in a bid to accommodate the new pregnancy curves and hopefully get a few hours of comfortable sleep.

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Voters are distributed in terms of their preferences across a bell - shaped normal curve which means that there are many votes to be won in the centre.

The team found a smaller aura of activity originating from the curved dentate gyrus than in normal rats [see image below].

«The side incision will generally cause less disruption to the soft tissues surrounding the ankle joint and allows for the replication of curved bone surfaces like those in a normal ankle,» he says.

To understand the principle behind robust statistics, Moitra explains, consider the normal distribution — the bell curve, or in mathematical parlance, the one - dimensional Gaussian distribution.

In the normal course of affairs some of those offspring will have traits that will help them survive a little longer than their brethren — a curve of the fin that helps a fish swim faster, a change in the eye that helps a bird spot its fooIn the normal course of affairs some of those offspring will have traits that will help them survive a little longer than their brethren — a curve of the fin that helps a fish swim faster, a change in the eye that helps a bird spot its fooin the eye that helps a bird spot its food.

In the normal distribution of a bell curve, you never get such extremes, but the pattern underlying the power curve enables a few rare events of extraordinary magnitude.

In a normal climate the probability for extreme events can be visualized like a traditional bell curve.

The fact that more methane is released when temperature rises is a normal linear response, probably associated with a growing number of warm days in Arctic (which is probably partly due to a high AMO oscillation), but I see no sign of a feedback on methane curve.

Figure 4 shows the mean survival curves obtained with the MTT assay in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), under conditions of normal and low proliferation rates (20 % and 2 % of FBS).

1994 9 (1): 19 - 23 in an article regarding the relationship of changes in neck posture in patients with neck pain; as neck pain patients had the normal neck curve restored over a twelve week period, improvements were noted in all measurements of clinical symptoms.

The extra pressure on the neck from altered posture flattens the normal curve of the cervical spine resulting in abnormal strain of muscles, ligaments, bones and joints of the neck causing the joints to deteriorate faster than normal resulting in degenerative joint disease or spondylosis of the cervical spine

The use of specialized equipment like home traction devices are essential to and effective in restoring the normal curve of the neck.

In functional scoliosis, a structurally normal spine appears curved because of a structural problem in another part of the body, such as a difference in leg lengtIn functional scoliosis, a structurally normal spine appears curved because of a structural problem in another part of the body, such as a difference in leg lengtin another part of the body, such as a difference in leg lengtin leg length.

My interpretation: Once again, we find that there is a U-shaped mortality curve, and minimum mortality occurs with average or fasting blood glucose in the middle of the normal range — in the vicinity of 100 mg / dl or 5.5 mmol / l.

This normal distribution of sleep needs in a population is a bell - shaped curve.

In fact, because of the way the thoracic spinous processes and facets are configured, this part of the spine can't bend backward at all; it can only unbend from its normal forward curve to form a straight line.

I am still in learning curve mode and while these turned out OK, they aren't as sharp and crisp as my normal outdoor photo shoots.

The game's infamously steep difficulty curve flew in the face of my normal gaming habits (as a poin

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

While Kraft and Gilmour assert that «systems that place greater weight on normative measures such as value - added scores rather than... [just]... observations have fewer teachers rated proficient» (p. 19; see also Steinberg & Kraft, forthcoming; a related article about how this has occurred in New Mexico here; and New Mexico's 2014 - 2016 data below and here, as also illustrative of the desired normal curve distributions discussed above), I highly doubt this purely reflects New Mexico's «commitment to putting students first.»

In fact, one observational system of which I am aware (i.e., the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement) is marketing its proprietary system, using as a primary selling point figures illustrating (with text explaining) how clients who use their system will improve their prior «Widget Effect» results (i.e., yielding such normal curves; see Figure below, as per Jerald & Van Hook, 2011, p. 1).

While not as daft as the Microsoft system that required every employee in every unit to be placed on a normal curve, the five percent prediction amounted to over 420 teachers a year.

But now that the national distribution of test scores is more normal, resembling a conventional bell curve, it is unlikely that we will see the kinds of huge gains we saw in the 1990s and early 2000s again, according to Commissioner Buckley.

However, as also evidenced in this aforementioned article, the increasing presence of normal curves illustrating «new and improved» teacher observational distributions does not necessarily mean anything normal.

This conversion uses the effect size — in the case of the D.C. voucher program, -0.12 standard deviations — to find the equivalent percentile drop from the 50th percentile on a normal curve.56

The «big» 2.4 - liter four - cylinder in the ILX feels smooth throughout the rev range, with no turbo or supercharger upsetting the curve, and in normal mode, the eight - speed DCT is relatively easygoing.

I spent most of the week driving around in «normal» mode and was pleasantly surprised by the MKC's willingness to round curves without too much wallow.

That's tough to do, though, when the vehicle's raw power calls for a harder sport suspension than normal, as well as front and rear anti-sway bars to maintain safe handling in the curves.

The technicians have widened the track of the AMG model compared to the normal CLS: The handling in curves should improve, explains Mercedes.

The first 20 or so miles was accomplished in normal drive mode on straight roads with a fair amount of morning traffic, when suddenly the road did a wonderful thing: It curved.

In general terms, yields increase in line with maturity, giving rise to an upward - sloping yield curve or a normal yield curvIn general terms, yields increase in line with maturity, giving rise to an upward - sloping yield curve or a normal yield curvin line with maturity, giving rise to an upward - sloping yield curve or a normal yield curve.

Such a yield curve implies a stable economic condition, and prevails for the longest duration in a normal economic cycle.

The slope of the cables of San Francisco's Bay Bridge looks a lot like a normal yield curve, as shown in this video.

At least the yield curve has resumed a normal shape, as noted before, that will be good for the banks in the long run.

My preferred monetary policy in normal times is for the yield curve to have about 50 basis of positive slope from twos to tens.

The increasing temporary demand for shorter - term securities pushes their yields even lower, setting in motion a steeper up - sloped normal yield curve.

But what really kills you — if you actually dabble in VIX futures / ETPs — is the contango embedded in the normal VIX futures curve.

Trust is probably the biggest learning curve for a puppy mill dog in rehabilitation, but building his confidence to face normal, everyday challenges goes hand in hand with trust!

There's a wonderfully subtle yet forthright feminist undertone to her work, too: the women she draws aren't idealised figures either slimmed down or curved up in all the right places — they're lumpy and normal and hardworking and smart.