Sentences with phrase «meaningful comparisons over»

Not exact matches

Ruth Dixon showed how the definition of central government administration costs in PESA changed so much over the 2000s that no meaningful comparison can be made over that period (see Figure 1).

Without such policies, there can not be any meaningful comparison of schools, districts or states when changes are tracked over time.

In the opinion of Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C. (the «Manager»), performance over short intervals is likely to be less meaningful than a comparison of longer periods.

Shelter managers need a consistent way to communicate and manage this data so they can make meaningful comparisons between shelters in different communities over time and set benchmarks for success.

The unfiltered model may be extrapolated to see where it would lead but filtering the model results is meaningful only for the purpose of comparison with filtered observations over an identical period.

Anomalies more accurately describe climate variability over larger areas than absolute temperatures do, and they give a frame of reference that allows more meaningful comparisons between locations and more accurate calculations of temperature trends.

Not the Pacific from 60S to 65N and 120W to 80E for five year smoothing over nineteen years — too short by fifteen years to produce a meaningful independent comparison.

However, this NCAER report is meaningful because it is sponsored by the regulator, conducted independently and arranged in a manner that allows comparison of progress over time.