Sentences with phrase «measure of the uncertainty in»

The SCE also provides measures of uncertainty in expectations for the main outcomes of interest.

This allows the computation of measures of uncertainty in addition to a mean intensity.

Far better this than running a dozen GCMs with funamentally different assumptions about climate feedbacks, plotting them on a graph and claiming that as a measure of the uncertainty in the behaviour of the real climate.

With nonstationary statistics the standard error of the fit over past years is not a good measure of the uncertainty in the prediction.

The ensemble member approach is commonly used to approximate a measure of uncertainty in modeled results.

«Quantified measures of uncertainty in a finding expressed probabilistically (based on statistical analysis of observations or model results, or expert judgment).»

It is good, as SteveM notes in this thread, that scientists have taken another look at the SST uncertainties and biases, but reading from the article (see comment in quotes below) one still comes away with a sense that we have no final hard and fast objective measure of the uncertainties in the temperature measurements.

This is due to at least a measure of uncertainty in interpreting the service provider's obligations under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Not exact matches

In a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.&raquIn a conference held on Tuesday, Lee said:» «We kept the base rate unchanged today as there is a need to closely examine growing protectionist measures and uncertainties abroad, although the local economy is expected to keep firm growth on the back of improvements in the global economy.&raquin the global economy.»

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Because of the uncertainties in the marketplace — and the very real threats to many companies» survival — many, many leaders see the concept of «culture» and the tasks of defining and managing it as luxuries that only get attention once more concrete and easier - to - measure objectives are handled.

In a sign of some uncertainty among investors about the impact of the BOJ's latest measures, Japanese markets were volatile following the announcement, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index down giving up initial gains and moving into negative territory.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Uncertainty about the outcome of the US election, which affected the autumn survey, has given way to uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian Uncertainty about the outcome of the US election, which affected the autumn survey, has given way to uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian uncertainty about the measures that will be put in place by the incoming US administration and their impact on Canadian businesses.

Thanks to unprecedented levels of uncertainty across many financial markets — particularly at the beginning of the year when China's collapsing stock prices sent shockwaves through equities markets worldwide, and then in June in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union — investors piled into gold as a safety measure.

While managers and industry experts anticipate the introduction of tapering measures in 2018, uncertainty remains with regard to the pace of these changes.

Moreover, «there is particularly high uncertainty about measuring the deviation of output from its potential,» and the values of the coefficients, a and b, in Taylor's rule need to be specified.

From the qualitative interviews, participants expressed uncertainty about their understanding of kilojoules, while only 40 % of participants in intercept surveys correctly answered that kilojoules and calories measured the same thing.

Two of these reviews produce summary measures suggesting parent training programmes have a significant positive effect in crime prevention [12] and for non-compliant children [13] although this latter review does not provide any indication of the uncertainty of the effect estimate.

The Corker concession was one of several lingering uncertainties in the bill that Senate aides said would be nailed down as the measure neared a floor vote.

«By requiring these additional measures of accountability, the State has signaled a stronger commitment to protecting its own fiscal interest in a time of economic uncertainty.

De Blasio testified against the measure when he spoke about his budget priorities in Albany last week, saying it would «produce uncertainty in financing and unnecessarily add difficulty and delay to the process of building the affordable housing struggling New Yorkers need.»

Using a representative sample of 20 different methods for predicting extreme sea levels the researchers focused intensely on the measures of uncertainty that accompany any prediction, but that are particularly vexing in the analysis of extremes.

Preserving their uncertainty would require one particle in the pair to instantly know and react when the other is measured — even at the other end of the universe.

Formulated in 1927 by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, the uncertainty principle puts strict limits on how accurately one can measure the position, velocity, energy, and other properties of a particle.

Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps to improve the relative uncertainty in measuring the luminous efficacy of LEDs from the approximate five percent of today to one per cent in the future.

The measured uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance measurements, Howe explained.

As one measure of the uncertainties, the review's arch critic, Yale University economist Robert Mendelsohn, now says it will be more like tens of billions of dollars in a study that the World Bank has been dithering about publishing.

Physicists measure the strength of signals in multiples of the experimental uncertainty, σ, and the discrepancy now stands at 3.5 σ — short of the 5 σ needed to claim a discovery, but interesting enough to warrant trying again.

A separate experiment measuring the atoms in a silicon sphere has calculated Planck's constant down to an uncertainty of 20 parts per billion, while the best watt measurement has achieved an uncertainty of just 19 parts per billion.

«We've done the world's best job of decreasing the uncertainty in the measured rate of universal expansion and of accurately assessing the size of this uncertainty,» said Filippenko, «yet we find that our measured rate of expansion is probably incompatible with the rate expected from observations of the young universe, suggesting that there's something important missing in our physical understanding of the universe.»

The simple question of whether the medieval period was warm or cold is not particularly interesting — given the uncertainty in the forcings (solar and volcanic) and climate sensitivity, any conceivable temperature anomaly (which remember is being measured in tenths of a degree) is unlikely to constrain anything.

These methods resulted in uncertainties, in part because it was impossible to measure all of the emissions sites, and scientists were therefore required to make assumptions about the quantity and strength of the sources.

«We were able to measure precisely the density of exoplanets that are similar to Earth in terms of their size, mass, and irradiation, with an uncertainty of less than 10 percent, which is a first and a decisive step in the characterization of potential habitability,» said Brice - Olivier Demory, a professor at the Center for Space and Habitability and co-author of the study, which was published in late January 2018 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

This uncertainty motivates our third and final analytic approach, where we measure the bias in teachers» expectations as the difference between students» actual outcomes and whatever we would have expected based on everything we can observe about them in the absence of self - fulfilling prophecies.

However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

As we are all too aware, turbulence and frequent changes in accountability measures are creating a culture of uncertainty in education in recent times, and here lies the inherent problem.

Licensure assessments for those entering teaching reflect this uncertainty; virtually all measure some aspects of candidates» personal content knowledge but few test their knowledge at a standard adequate for teaching it, and even fewer require evidence of performance ability — in part because there is no professional consensus around what a new teacher should be able to do.

In metrology, measuring sticks must be traceably calibrated against standard tools of measurement, which must further be traced to primary standards based on physical constants, such as units of wavelength of light that have low measures of uncertainty.

Simply put, volatility is the measure of «nervousness» that's in the markets, based on a sense of uncertainty as far as what the futures prices might do, or where those prices might go.

The study also uses survey data from developers to gauge the effect of timeline uncertainty in each municipality, with responses measured on a five - point scale from (1.0) «encourages development» to (5.0) «would not pursue development due to uncertain approval timelines.»

Throw in the unemployment rate (as a measure of buyer uncertainty) and the and the range narrows further.

But instead of lamenting these uncertainties, we believe there is value in measuring them.

By examining every gesture from the summits of conceptualism I can measure the distance between the slowness generated by uncertainty and the speed that accelerates convictions» (Marti Cormand) Born in Spain in 1970, Marti Cormand lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

NEW YORK — Despite continued uncertainty about the economy, many museums saw improvements in their financial health last year, reaping the benefits of cutbacks and other cautionary fiscal measures taken in the recent past.

I can determine the standard uncertainty for all the measured variables from statistics It is falsifiable — i can move a body at a certain velocity for a certain time and measure the traveled distance If the traveled distance does not fit with calculated distance within the uncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement the model mighuncertainty for all the measured variables from statistics It is falsifiable — i can move a body at a certain velocity for a certain time and measure the traveled distance If the traveled distance does not fit with calculated distance within the uncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement the model mighuncertainty calculated by using the international standard Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement the model mighUncertainty in Measurement the model might be wrong.

Example: ``... water storage capacity in a region, taking into account that the supply of the resource, the flow into the reserve, is uncertain, that a measure of the uncertainty, the variance, is likely to increase with climate change...

But I would really have preferred if they had written in Helvetica, 30, Bold that the uncertainty band is not on the actual, as measured in the field, global average temperature, but on their matematical model of it, and because of the steps that model contain, probably an order of magnitude too optimistic with respect to the actual temperature.

I can measure the height of my desk above the floor easily to within a couple of millimeters, even if I have a one - meter uncertainty in its absolute height above sea level.

[Response: Dropping outliers just because they don't agree with your preconceived ideas is a classical error in statistics — it's much better to use the spread as a measure of the uncertainty.