Sentences with phrase «measured on an absolute basis»

In the process of scanning the investment landscape to find value amidst the all time highs for the indices, I've noticed that a number of big cap tech stocks are priced at low valuations relative to their earnings and free cash flow, measured on an absolute basis and relative to their own historical valuations.

Not exact matches

As a result, EM stocks, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, look fairly cheap on an absolute basis and very cheap relative to developed market equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

Dr Gilchrist said: «This study suggests that we may improve significantly on the widely used analysis methods for determining gene expression levels from high throughput sequence data: absolute quantitation offers a much sounder basis for determining changes in gene expression level, a measure widely used to determine the consequence of genetic, chemical or physical disturbances in living systems.»

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Quality should be measured by how much students improve; basing it on absolute performance creates an incentive to exclude low - performers.

The 2010 program's «absolute priority 1» required districts to set up performance - based compensation systems tied closely — though exactly how closely was not specified — to student growth as measured by performance on standardized tests.

Villar's statement, «The CEA has continued to push for an absolute ban despite the fact a majority of the CEA's own constituents believe measures of student learning should be included in their evaluations,» is based on a false premise.

As a result, EM stocks, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, look fairly cheap on an absolute basis and very cheap relative to developed market equities, as measured by the MSCI World Index.

Many metrics in current use (e.g. Sharpe Ratio, tracking error, information ratio) compare a unit of return to a unit of portfolio volatility, measured either on an absolute basis or relative to a benchmark.

We find that the use of alternative average - error measures based on sums of the absolute values of the errors (e.g., the mean absolute error, or MAE) circumvents such error overestimation.

Well, ANU, snarky though you may be, you raise a nominally interesting point; the problem, however, is that the amounts are anomalies; so the 90's are on average a certain amount above the average of the base period; now to compare the increase in anomalies in the noughties, which are higher than the nineties and say this is evidence of progressive warming, hottest ever, or whatever is the current alarmist catch - cry, ignores the fact that the true measure of the warming is not the absolute anomalies but their difference; that is the amounts for the noughties should have the amounts for the nineties subtracted from them and then compared with the nineties after they have the eighties subtracted from them.

They happen to be a transformation that partials out the local variation from a base climate (ultimately derived from absolute measures and no doubt subject to change as stations come and go) and it therefore depends on a second hidden (but known) averaging process for its accuracy.

Don't use that as an absolute measure — your quotes will no doubt vary based on the amount of protection you need, the deductible you choose, your credit score, and myriad other factors.

Results indicate that IPT resulted in significant improvement in depressive symptoms relative to the WLC based on (1) the absolute reduction in symptom levels as measured by the HRSD and the BDI; (2) the proportion of women who responded to treatment reduction in symptom severity as measured by the HRSD and the BDI); (3) the proportion of women who met HRSD and BDI criteria for recovery; and (4) the proportion of women who no longer met DSM - IV criteria for major depression.

Evaluation of model fit was based on multiple criteria, including the theoretical meaningfulness of the model, absolute - fit indices (how well a model fits the data, without comparing to a baseline model), incremental fit measures (how much better the model fits than a baseline model) and model cross-validation (how the model can be replicated with an independent sample).