Sentences with phrase «less correlation with»

It's an asset class that has historically less correlation with traditional investments like stocks and bonds.

It's an asset class that has historically less correlation with traditional investments like stocks and bonds.

Not exact matches

A strong correlation with effort and reward is why entrepreneurship is so rewarding, and why working at a big corporation or the government may be less fulfilling.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

Strong correlation with future inflation / deflation, less income generated = > less demand = > deflation.

I read that positive correlations with food give us comfort and a reminder of social ties, helping us feel less lonesome when we feel isolated.

Combine measures like broad jump (correlation with pro marginal explosiveness: 0.18), bench press reps -LRB--0.20, meaning the more you bench, the less explosive you're likely to be), and vertical jump (0.13) are more closely tied to big - play potential than how many big plays you broke at the college level.

And also the correlation between your truly - terrified - of - poop friend and your own fears — your imagination is generally worse than reality, and even when reality IS pretty gross (like that time my baby had an explosive poop all over my lap at a restaurant that only had the tiniest bathroom ever, like there wasn't enough room between the toilet and the door for the diaper bag, much less a three - month - old) you just sort of... take it in stride and deal with it, knowing that the benefits of babies and children outweigh the occasional brush with grossness.

Most previous studies have compared breast fed children with children who were exclusively formula fed, but some studies have found that the correlation between breast feeding and cognitive ability increases with a longer duration of breast feeding.3 13 30 A Finnish study of 1163 children found a mean difference of 2.4 points on a cognitive test at 6 months of age between children breast fed for less than five months, compared to children breast fed for at least five months.10

The actual situation is more complex of course, because votes are not determined by a single class, but by a composite of many issues with less than perfect correlation.

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

Although it is not surprising to see some correlation between frequency of unloadings and higher annual emissions, the study's findings indicate that wells with a high frequency of unloadings have annual emissions that are 10 or more times as great as wells that unload less frequently.

[Jeff Weeks, a mathematician who is working with Spergel to analyze WMAP's data, says, «The large - scale temperature correlations across the sky are much less than one would expect in an infinite universe but exactly what one would expect in a finite one.»]

The branch lengths of the high - variance exon tree showed a strong positive correlation with GC content and a negative correlation with the average body mass of species, seen at a much lesser magnitude in the low - variance exon tree (Fig. 6, A to D).

Researchers suggest that factors relating to the nature of modern education such as more time devoted to studying and working with computers and less time spent outside may help to explain the correlation between short - sightedness and education levels.

In healthy aging, it's less clear, although studies showed that mitochondrial lipid perodixation as strong correlation with MLSP (in mammals) but it's not necessarily 100 % causal but more correlative (studies said that mitochondrial membrane peroxidation contributes about 30 % in intrinsic aging weight; not 100 % itself alone.

We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.

A negative correlation is expected if slightly deleterious mutations, and possibly also genes that are less constrained, accumulate in regions of the genome with low recombination frequency because of the reduced efficiency of natural selection.

Indeed, when we look at the variable «non-fish animal protein intake,» the correlation with «death from all cancers» is a measly 0.03, which is even less than the correlation with plant protein (0.12).

The correlation was strongest with the K1 intake [below left], but there was also a correlation, albeit less strong, with vitamin K2 [below right].

Ironically, when we look at plant protein — which The China Study argues so vigorously is cancer - protective — we find almost three times as many positive correlations with various cancers as we do with animal protein, including colon cancer, rectal cancer, and esophageal cancer.20 Likewise, for heart disease and stroke, plant protein has a positive correlation while animal protein and fish protein have negative or nearly neutral correlations — meaning the animal - food eaters in rural China, if anything, are getting less cardiovascular disease than their more vegetarian friends.

Fitness level (measured through VO2max estimation) is taken into consideration because there is a known negative correlation between VO2max and energy cost of running (i.e. with increased fitness, or VO2max, you will burn less calories to run a given distance).

TRUTH: What's said in the bestselling book «The China Study» does not match the findings of the actual China; Cornell - Oxford Study, in which there was no correlation with more or less disease in people eating a lot of plant foods.

A higher risk for COPD was found in persons who smoked, but there was also a COPD correlation with persons of lower household incomes, less education, and lower BMI (body mass index).

Try this thought experiment with another observed practice to illustrate my point about how the results are being mis - reported... The correlation between student observations that «My teacher seems to know if something is bothering me» and value added was.153, which was less than the.195 correlation for «We spend a lot of time in this class practicing for [the state test].»

Not surprisingly, parent socioeconomic status is strongly predictive of student test scores, and, looking at simple correlations, we find that less - advantaged students do tend to be assigned to teachers with lower VA measures.

This portion of the survey demonstrated good reliability with a Cronbach's alpha level of 0.88, with only one item exhibiting an item - rest correlation of less than 0.3 («Eliciting misconceptions from students only reinforces bad math habits»).

Speaking of Vanguard, it's making its second foray in the world of liquid alts (after Vanguard Market Neutral) with Vanguard Alternative Strategies Fund seeks to generate returns that have low correlation with the returns of the stock and bond markets, and that are less volatile than the overall U.S. stock market.

Make sure that your portfolio has assets with less than a.5 correlation to the S&P 500, like the WisdomTree Emerging Market High Yield Fund (DEM).

Now that we have a mental idea of how the broader stock market performs, we're going to try and use correlation statistics that outperforms them with less volatility (or, in other words, have a significantly superior Sharpe Ratio).

Of course, there are also plenty of stocks & sectors at the other extreme, i.e. they're highly correlated with the economy — but frankly, most portfolios would benefit from less, not more, correlation.

The exact portfolio construction is less critical than including asset categories with a low correlation to the S&P 500.

Real estate investment trusts are somewhat less correlated with U.S. stocks, but the correlation is still pretty high.

The objective of this portfolio is to produce efficient, risk - adjusted returns with limited correlation, less volatility and more consistency than traditional asset classes.

The correlation between these two selection indexes (0.771 — 0.774) is sufficiently less than unity enabling the selection of dogs with different genetic propensity for laxity and for osteoarthritic CHD changes in GSDs; this may also be applicable in other breeds.

Believes the best correlation between the words «twilight» and «sparkle» has less to do with vampires and more to do with a sarcastic pony.

Please note that nowhere does science claim a linear correlation with temperature - CO2 is not the only factor in surface temperature, especially on scales less than a couple of decade.

Perhaps the cognitive ability to consider variations that might be more successful has some correlation with the liberal political bias because the authoritarian preference for fixed forms among conservatives is less adaptive.

So you will draw 200 cores from a stand of trees, screen them for correlation to temperature from some series of instrumental temperatures, hopefully taken at more or less the same altitude within 100 miles of the stand of trees, and claim that tree X is a good treemometer because it correlates with the temperature record while tree Y which grew 20 feet away is a bad treemometer because it correlates less well, and throw away 60 % of the cores accordingly, and then claim that you can extrapolate what the temperature in that stand of trees was doing 500, 700, 1000 years earlier based on the 40 % you retain?

This data shows that the tree rings have a correlation with local temperatures that is much less than the rings have with hemispheric temperatures (explaining only about half as much of the variation).

It is obvious that there is a high degree of correlation of the AO index with temperature in the United States, with any possible lag between index and temperature anomaly less than the monthly temporal resolution.

And in any case we have seen already that other countries can deliver better health to their citizens for less money and with less research — so even if the correlation had some validity, it would merely underscore the inequity and inefficiency of the U.S. system.

Even with the generally large spatial coherence and correlation length scales of temperature anomalies at polar latitudes (e.g. Hansen et al. 1999; Chapman and Walsh 2007), none of the reconstruction methods can escape the basic limitation of few in situ observations in West Antarctica, and all exhibit less skill in this region compared with other regions of the continent.

However, this approach is fraught with «correlation without a cause» error; it's unclear how or if the heat caused this mortality, or whether some indirect correlation, eg if EMS services burdened by an extreme event being less available was a cause.

In the question and answer session in a seminar someone saying, «But, Dr Kaplansky, with a sample size of 27, the correlation coefficient you have arrived at is less than experimental error» wouild result in a collective gasp and «ole!»

So, you've got two conflicting points here: one is that two - way bike lanes are correlated with stronger bicycling growth than any other type of protected bike lane in this NITC report (more research needs to be done to confirm causation, not simply correlation), and second is that on - street two - way bike lanes are considerably less safe than on - street one - way bike lanes according to numerous bicycle planning experts and authorities.

(These two correlation coefficients show a strong significant difference in a two - tailed test with a p - value of less than 0.03.)

Correlations confirm that the more the German climate scientists talked with journalists and published articles in the media, the less they approved of discussing unresolved questions in public.

The company released the results of a study that showed a correlation between auto insurance premiums and credit score, indicating that consumers with higher credit scores paid less for their auto insurance each year.

Assuming a drop - out rate from the trial of approximately 20 %; this sample size was sufficient to detect a standardised effect size of 0.4 at 85 % power and α of 0.05 in the primary outcome measure if there was no clustering and a standardised effect size of 0.6 allowing for clustering by course with an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.178 or less; for this sample size calculation, we conservatively imagined clustering within control families as well as intervention families.