Multilevel
model estimates with and without the baseline as a control suggested that CfC had a positive effect on involvement in community service activity and reduced the rate of household joblessness for households with low education mothers.
Not exact matches
Contrast this
with the modern - day retail
model: Brands design an entire season's collection of 10 - 15 styles, do their best to
estimate the demand based on wholesale orders or past seasons» performance, and then produce thousands of pieces abroad.
«Depending on the
model of washing machine we would
estimate a consumer to pay less than a 10 percent premium for a washing machine
with the technology,» a representative for the company told Entrepreneur.
TrimTabs» proprietary
model, which is based on income tax withholdings deposited daily
with the U.S. Treasury, projects just 75,000 new jobs added in June, a 40 % drop from its May
estimate of 124,000 jobs.
This adjustment has historically been important, as adjusting for that embedded profit margin significantly improves the relationship between the CAPE and actual subsequent market returns (something we can demonstrate both
with algebraic return
estimates and regression
models — see Margins, Multiples, and the Iron Law of Valuation).
I very much disagree
with him, I think the old Wall Street bulge bracket business
model is cooked forever and is now in secular decline — there is simply no way to
estimate what their true earnings power is or will be next year combined
with the opacity of their balance sheets.
Do the same thing
with the Fed
Model, or most other «equity risk premium»
estimates proposed by Wall Street analysts or academics, and you'll either cry, or laugh, or cry laughing, but you'll undoubtedly be distressed that anyone would recommend those
models as a basis for long - term investment.
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estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.
You'd probably have to come up
with a statistical
model that
estimates what the fluctuations should be given some basic assumptions on how people will buy to make a conclusive argument that there is something fishy here.
Recent
estimates produced
with models similar to JCT's have found the tax bills may increase the growth rate by 0.03 to 0.09 percentage points per year, producing as much as $ 200 billion of dynamic feedback.
With an
estimated range of at least 200 miles, the new 60 kWh
Model S comes at a time when Tesla is rapidly expanding production.
It creates a
model using data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances and other datasets to
estimate household debt and assets, comparing the projected debts and assets of a college - educated household
with average levels of education debt to a similar household without debt.
Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated
with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The
modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally
estimated.
The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared
with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we
estimate in the UK is much less than that
estimated in the US.12 The differences
with respect to other
modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.
With this tool, the researchers are trying to develop a
model that can be used by coffee farms around the world to
estimate their own carbon sequestration potential.
Deloitte Access Economics (DAE) was commissioned by Tabcorp to
model public benefits of cost savings they anticipated from the merger DAE's Regional General Equilibrium computer general equilibrium
model (CGE
model) to
estimate «broader and long - term economy - wide benefits associated
with the merger» (para 514)
We performed an extended multivariable
model to evaluate whether nutrients known to be associated
with osteoporosis or fracture risk (calcium, vitamin D, phosphorus, fat, protein, and retinol) influenced our
estimates.
This
model estimated linear slopes of weight gain for each feeding category
with final
estimates adjusted for the potential confounding factors listed previously.
We used multiple regression to
estimate the differences in total cost between the settings for birth and to adjust for potential confounders, including maternal age, parity, ethnicity, understanding of English, marital status, BMI, index of multiple deprivation score, parity, and gestational age at birth, which could each be associated
with planned place of birth and
with adverse outcomes.12 For the generalised linear
model on costs, we selected a γ distribution and identity link function in preference to alternative distributional forms and link functions on the basis of its low Akaike's information criterion (AIC) statistic.
A confounding variable was defined for analysis as one for which there was at least a 5 % difference in the regression coefficient
estimates for type of feeding in regression
models with and without the potential confounding variable.
Reduced logistic regression
models with birth weight substituted for gestational age were also
estimated.
After examining the unadjusted, bivariate associations
with delayed OL, we used logistic regression analysis to
estimate the adjusted odds ratio (OR) and 95 % CI in multiple variable
models.
Higgins said he doesn't have a philosophical issue
with the single - payer
model, but while some are
estimating Sanders plan could cost more than $ 30 trillion over a decade —
with no plan from the senator at the moment on how to cover that cost — his comes at no extra charge to the government.
The lower probability for Clinton in the FiveThirtyEight
model is partly (by comparison
with most but not all
models) due to 538 having a smaller
estimate of her likely lead in votes.
When we tried higher
estimates of Paul volume to compensate for this loss, the Globalpoint
model's correlation came into the same range
with the others.
How this
model works: As
with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support
estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken
with this analysis.
The regulations would require passengers be given the fare or
estimated fare before a ride begins,
with the app displaying a photo of the driver, the make,
model and color of the car and its license plate number.
This
model is then used to
estimate the probability that a voter
with specified characteristics will vote Conservative, Labour, or some other party.»
Combining the data
with theoretical
models, the team
estimated that the initial mass of the star was about 20 times the mass of our sun, though it lost most of its mass, probably to a companion star, and slimmed down to about 5 solar masses prior to exploding.
Using that as a guide, along
with estimates of necessary runoff rates and the duration of valley network formation from other studies, Palumbo showed that
model runs in which the Martian orbit was highly eccentric did indeed meet these criteria.
Nelson and his colleagues, working
with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank,
estimated global agricultural impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic
models for crop yields
with climate
models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
Additionally, the
model estimated the fraction of those
with more serious conditions.
Fussenegger's group developed the genetic network; Professor of Biosystems Engineering Andreas Hierlemann and his team tested the acidity sensor
with the aid of microfluidic platforms; and Jörg Stelling, a professor of computational systems biology,
modelled it in order to
estimate the dynamics of the insulin production.
«We determined we need to be irrigating at 75 percent of our past ET levels as
estimated with the current
model and finding hybrids that better tolerate stress,» Brauer said, adding this was from studies conducted by Xu and Marek over several years.
When scientists use climate
models for attribution studies, they first run simulations
with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.
Considering that existing climate
models typically do not consider northeast Greenland
with future sea - level projections, the findings suggest that sea - level rise
estimates may err on the high side, close to 3 feet or higher, said Khan.
They came up
with a prediction
model which
estimates that the likelihood of over-diagnosis ranges from 2.9 to 88.1 percent depending on patient age, PSA level and Gleason score at diagnosis.
The study analyzed non-fatal incidence data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
with cost
estimates from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Injury Cost
Model, and 1999 - 2013 fatal incidence data from the National Vital Statistics System.
Researchers combined the new
model with a census of these distinctive galaxies to
estimate that such titanic encounters happen about once a year in the cosmos.
So far, though, it has been difficult to measure this important indicator,
with current climate
models relying on rough carbon
estimates.
Landerer and his colleagues
modelled the changes that would occur if the most realistic
estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by 2100 compared
with 2000 — were to become reality.
ETH researchers have now shown that the high
estimated mutation rates at the start of the epidemic were due to the limited number of virus samples at the time in combination
with the computer
models used, which calculate the
estimates using genetic data from virus samples and from underlying assumptions.
When the team combined OCO - 2 data from selected passes over certain power plants in the United States
with computer
models of how emissions plumes would disperse, its
estimates of those plants» emissions fell within 17 % of the actual amounts those facilities reported for those days, the researchers report this week in Geophysical Research Letters.
This
estimate, while in line
with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical
models of evolution tested in this study.
To develop the
model, the team began
with an
estimate of hypothetical food intake by food group.
The team used real - time seasonal rainfall, temperature and El Niño forecasts, issued at the start of the year, combined
with data from active surveillance studies, in a probabilistic
model of dengue epidemics to produce robust dengue risk
estimates for the entire year.
The calculations are in line
with estimates from most climate
models, proving that these
models do a good job of
estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.
Using a hierarchical
model, the authors combine information from these various sources to obtain an ensemble
estimate of current and future climate along
with an associated measure of uncertainty.
The robot had learned to use a perceptual
model to recognize and classify objects — and it could rely on this
model to
estimate how similar two objects were
with only the sounds they made to guide it.