Sentences with phrase «larger standard deviation»

The more variable the returns, the larger the standard deviations.

The more variable the returns, the larger the standard deviation.

The larger the standard deviation, the greater the likelihood (and risk) that a security's performance will fluctuate from the average return.

The only thing I can think of is that people with 0 % utilization fall into the category of never use the card and never will and do not use the card now, but will max it out soon thus attaching a large standard deviation to the 0 % bin, and, thus, statistically, someone in that bin is a risk.

The larger the standard deviation, the greater the volatility of returns and therefore the greater the risk.

This is, in part, because they had greater scatter (i.e., a larger standard deviation).

I mean, Poisson corrections and so on aside, if we know what the standard deviation is, then the fact that this kind of problem tends to lead to large standard deviations is rather beside the point, isn't it?

If you have errors in a measurement, it is revealed by a larger standard deviation in the results.

The gas program had the largest standard deviation of the year - to - year funding variation (36 %), whereas the vehicle technologies program had the lowest standard deviation (18 %).

However, the interesting thing I did find was that the date of first freeze was substantially more variable between 1970 and 2010, with a sigma of 10 days from 1900 - 1900 and 15 days from 1970 - 2010 (and it's just smaller sample, 1900 - 2010 also had a larger standard deviation of about 13).