Sentences with phrase «minimum number of observations»

Not exact matches

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

They add in the full report that in many states «a high score on an evaluation's observation and [other] non-student growth components [can] result in a teacher earning near or at the minimum number of points needed to earn an effective rating.

The likelihoods are computed from the excess, delta.r2, of r2 over its minimum value, minr2 (occurring where the model run parameters provide the best fit to observations), divided by m, the number of free model parameters, here 3.

The remaining lines in the top panel of the figure describe the shape of this distribution by plotting its median (i.e. the point that divides the distribution into an equal number of observations, such that 500 are above and another 500 below that point), its 25th percentile or quartile (labelled Q25, referring to the point that has 250 budgets below it and the remaining 750 above), and finally its minimum.

For a station, when the time of observation is shifted from early evening to early morning, the number of «duplicate» minimum readings in the raw data should increase greatly if there is no other resetting.

The Centennial solar cycle appears as a peak of ~ 104 years in cosmogenic isotopes frequency analysis, and as a decrease in maximum and minimum sunspot numbers at the beginning of each century since there have been telescopic sunspot observations.