Sentences with phrase «less deviation from»

Sure, experimentation always occurs in even numbered gens, but there tends to be less deviation from the core foundation.

We prefer ETFs with less deviation from the performance of the underlying index.

By choosing the path with the lesser deviation from the goal - heading direction, the animal shows that it knows where the goal is and the best route to get there.»

Not exact matches

The reason why valuations are so tightly correlated with 10 - 12 year returns is that extreme deviations from historical norms tend to wash out over that horizon, and because interest rate fluctuations have a much less durable impact on market valuations than investors imagine.

Except a cold shower delivers comparable results needing no equipment or any deviation from your regular schedule, has no risk of injury, and pollutes less.

Marriage itself is still good, and any deviation from it is less than good.

The new State Senate districts vary from the ideal population count by no more than 1.65 percent, or less than a 550 - resident deviation from the target for the least accurate district.

«We are rapidly entering an era where restoration interventions will be guided less by statistical deviations from historical reference conditions and more by «process - based» understanding of organism - environment relationships,» he writes.

It was quite a deviation from his usual forward, sleek designs, but it was no less the absolute epitome of winter wear.

Furthermore, these effect sizes are not comparable because the standard deviation used to scale the voucher results is from a much less diverse sample: low - income, inner - city students who participated in the experiment.

For the 20 schools with near - zero kindergarten readiness gaps, test score gaps in grades three and five range from less than two - fifths of a standard deviation to more than a full standard deviation.

For the 11 schools with kindergarten readiness gaps of around 30 percentage points, test score gaps range from less than third of a standard deviation to over 1.5 standard deviations.

Further, teachers are less likely to encourage questions, tinkering, or deviations from the script when they feel pressure to accomplish goals that might not leave time for questions, tinkering, or deviations from the script.

The research on class size is decidedly mixed, but the largest estimates (from the Tennessee STAR study) imply that a three - student increase in class size in the early grades would decrease test scores by 0.05 standard deviations after one year (and by less in future years).

Since the Fund's launch in 1989, investors have doubled their money every 10 years, no matter when they bought the fund... The fund has outperformed global equities with 1/3 less risk [based on annualized standard deviation of monthly returns for Institutional shares from 2/28/89 to 12/31/13, compared to the FTSE World Index].

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

If, as of the rebalancing date, the portfolio's deviation from the target asset allocation is less than the predetermined threshold, the portfolio will not be rebalanced.

And it would have lowered your volatility from a standard deviation of 16.25 % to only 14.83 %, a 6.36 % better annual return with 1.42 % less volatility.

All dogs except one had less than a 10 % deviation from their mean weight during any given month.

While this limitation was unavoidable due to the study's retrospective nature, most dogs had less than a 6 % deviation from their mean weight during any given month.

From default gray to clear blue, the Dualshock even had lesser - known color deviations, like the emerald green and clear red.

We would expect isobar deviations to more or less radiate out symmetrically from areas of higher sea level.

This would further confound attempts to assess their contribution to temperature change during intervals when their net deviation from their baseline levels was large, although it would have less significance for the post-1950 decades when their net contribution would be small even as independent sources of warming.

If we have prior knowledge that the real date is between 300 and 700 and if the red distribution tells the accuracy of determining the C14 data we know already before the collection of the data that we are likely to learn essentially nothing from measuring the C14 date, because the calibration line is close to horizontal over that range, horizontal enough to have all possible values within a range of less than one standard deviation of the empirical accuracy.

In that case, I would tend to discount the less frequent, but larger amplitude deviations from the straight line; as being the result of actual transient events; rather than noise.

If instead of declining to zero by 2020, the ice increased to pre-1980 levels (slightly higher probability of occurring since it would require less of a deviation from the trend line), how would it impact your view?

From all the data I have found, the current Satellite data indicates less then a TOA deviation of less then +0.003 deviation.

If this change were made, it is estimated from trip data that the standard deviation of differences would be reduced to less than 1.0 F.»

The Darwin - based SOI, in normalized units of standard deviation, from 1866 to 2005 (Können et al., 1998; lower right) features monthly values with an 11 - point low - pass filter, which effectively removes fluctuations with periods of less than eight months (Trenberth, 1984).

The real question before the court was whether Fekre's reaction in the less than two seconds was a «marked deviation» from what a «reasonably prudent» driver would do under the circumstances.

Alternatively, as a less formulistic approach, the trial court might grant a downward deviation from the Guideline to the non-primary custodial parent.

Parents can always decide to pay more, or may ask the Court to approve a deviation for less if a parent has to travel from another state or country to spend parenting time with their children.

A recent study8 examining peer status in clinically - diagnosed 7 — 9 year old children with ADHD from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA) 9,10 found that 52 % fell in the rejected category (when the classification system of Coie et al11 is used) and less than 1 % were of popular status.8 When children who did not fit into any category were excluded in calculating these percentages, the situation was even more bleak, with 80 % of children with ADHD falling in the rejected group.8 These figures are consistent with previous work indicating that 82 % of children with ADHD have peer rejection scores one standard deviation or more above the mean and 60 % are two standard deviations or more above the mean.12