Sentences with phrase «measures of uncertainty about»

Also, the model - based approach includes measures of uncertainty about our population estimates, which are not usually provided by more common approaches and are crucial for understanding the level of confidence we have about our estimates.»

To identify characteristics of firms that attract activist short sellers, he examines 12 indicators of stock overvaluation and nine measures of uncertainty about firm prospects.

Of the 796 papers manually reviewed by the Ioannidis team that contained empirical data, only 111 reported effect sizes and only 18 reported confidence intervals (a measure of the uncertainty about the magnitude of the effect).

The shading indicates a measure of uncertainty about future sea level for two different scenarios — a low emissions scenario where carbon emissions are rapidly cut (blue RCP 2.6) and a high emissions scenario with no carbon cuts (red RCP 8.5).

Not exact matches

South Korean shares rose as technology and auto sectors rallied after the Bank of Japan announced aggressive monetary easing measures, resolving uncertainty about its actions.

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.

Export prospects continue to support the outlook despite elevated uncertainty about the impact of potential US policy changes, notably corporate tax cuts and protectionist measures.

A: Every investor will have to make their own judgment about the market, it does seem like measures of volatility are relatively low given all the uncertainties at present.

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.

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.

Given the volume of the government's daily cash flows and the uncertainty about the magnitude of key transactions during those months, the Treasury could exhaust its extraordinary measures and authority to borrow as early as March or as late as May or June.

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.»

Persons suffering from harmless irregular heartbeat have also reported improved quality of life due to the measuring device alleviating their uncertainty about their condition.

The study «reveals more quantitatively how stress (both self - reported and measured with physiological arousal) is driven by... «irreducible uncertainty,» uncertainty about the state of the world that we can't control,» says Ross Otto, a neuroscientist at New York University.

The radius was then calculated using the specific frequencies at which the wavelength of microwaves exactly fit into the resonator and was measured with an overall uncertainty of 11.7 nm, which is the thickness of about 600 atoms.

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.

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.

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.

It also explains why researchers and value - added vendors typically report confidence intervals for value - added measures that help quantify the role of random error and the uncertainty this creates about teachers» «true» value - added.

The superintendents said there are many shortages, from the capacity of administrative staff to conduct the evaluations to the continued tensions and uncertainties among teachers about what the new measures will bring.

Based on the above conclusions, they consider that the future integrity of the property is highly at risk, taking into account the possible prospect of offshore oil exploitation, the uncertainty about the impact of invasive species, the already existing threats for which progress on the corrective measures is unclear and the globally increasing effects of climate change to coral reef systems, including the Belize Barrier Reef system.

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.

In this instance, however, the overall weight of the evidence from the cumulative body of information contained in this Public Health Review demonstrates that there are significant uncertainties about the kinds of adverse health outcomes that may be associated with HVHF, the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse health outcomes, and the effectiveness of some of the mitigation measures in reducing or preventing environmental impacts which could adversely affect public health.

There are many uncertainties as to when the glaciers will be entirely gone > Jimbo's link (his 4th) on the Science news story, which is identical to the recent tempest in a teapot about the Himalayan glaciers > At a time when governments are baulking at taking tough measures to combat climate change, this new blow to the credibility of the IPCC could not have come at a worse time.»

Instead, they discuss new ways of playing around with the aerosol judge factor needed to explain why 20th - century warming is about half of the warming expected for increased in GHGs; and then expand their list of fudge factors to include smaller volcanos, stratospheric water vapor (published with no estimate of uncertainty for the predicted change in Ts), transfer of heat to the deeper ocean (where changes in heat content are hard to accurately measure), etc..

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.

The case of the Netherlands clearly illustrates that even with existing uncertainties about future climate, economically viable and responsible investments into adaptation measures can be made.

These findings are not sensitive to a wide range of assumptions, including the time series used to measure temperature, the omission of black carbon and stratospheric water vapor, and uncertainty about anthropogenic sulfur emissions and its effect on radiative forcing (SI Appendix: Sections 2.4 — 7).

Sensitivity analysis indicates that uncertainty about the measure of surface temperature, anthropogenic sulfur emissions, or its conversion to radiative forcing has a small effect on the model's simulated forecast for global surface temperature (SI Appendix: Section 2.4 and Figs S3, S4).

We strike a line or curve of some sort through this sorry data and measure the scatter about it in sophisticated ways to measure uncertainty.

Call me cynical if you like, but if Judith had wanted to create a measure of uncertainty and doubt in the popular mind about the BEST findings, then allowing the Daily Mail to do their worst with her comments would be a neat and deniable way of doing it, don't you think?

The first big issue is about the accuracy of estimations: (a) there are discordant trends of present: low atmospheric satellite measured temperature vs. GST measured in land & oceans; (b) there is a big uncertainty linked to the proxy data obtained during XX, XIX and beyond centuries.

He is a bigger fan of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, which measures the degree to which businesses and households are uncertain about the economy.