Sentences with phrase «more robust measures»

However, measured anthropometrics are more accurate than self - report and are thus more robust measures, justifying our focus on this reduced sample.

KAMENETZ: Well, the hope is that over time we'll develop better, more robust measures that incorporate different kinds of data.

And the designation would highlight key areas that can be protected by more robust measures, including establishment of SMAs.

Student achievement remains a far more robust measure of teacher quality than many others available.

But, looking at what the plot that I showed you is a more robust measure of what is happening because rather than letting the noise of ENSO dominate things, it looks overall at whether the data has continued to follow the upward trendline from pre-1998.

Use it all to get a more robust measure.

Not exact matches

If that feels like too much, your next best bet is to try to pressure companies to adopt more transparent and robust security measures for their data.

However, broader measures of the economy are more robust.

A Stronger, More Accountable Contract — Stronger oversight provisions are necessary to ensure that contract requirements are met and accountability measures are robust.

However, associations with fetal motor activity measures were more consistent and robust: higher concentrations of 7 of 10 organochlorine compounds were positively associated with one of more measures of more frequent and more vigorous fetal motor activity.

«This new, more robust way of measuring attenuation is a breakthrough that can be applied in other systems around the world.

It also calls for more robust security measures after a disaster.

Specifically, MP significantly increased scores on self - reports (averaged measures), and the effects differed between groups, with controls reporting a more robust «high» (drug effect: F = 92, P = 0.0001; interaction: F = 6.2, P = 0.02), «restlessness» (F = 35, P = 0.0001; interaction: F = 5.8, P = 0.02), «anxiety» (F = 7, P = 0.01; interaction: F = 5.8, P = 0.02), and «drug effects» (F = 100, P = 0.0001; interaction F = 4, P = 0.05) than marijuana abusers.

This new measure of ocean warming is also more robust to some sources of error in the ocean observing system.

Weak lensing cosmology will be challenging: in addition to highly accurate galaxy shape measurements, statistically robust and accurate photometric redshift (photo - z) estimates for billions of faint galaxies will... ▽ More A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

Bringing a quantitative element into the process to enable big data analytics to measure instruction, retention, development, and generally bring a best - practices element right into the learning environment in real time; much more robust than end of year exams.

How organizations increasingly view learning across their internal, partner, customer, and member ecosystem holistically and seek to establish closed - loop learning across the extended enterprise Measuring the business impacts — financial and otherwise — that flow from a robust extended enterprise learning program How to establish a successful extended enterprise learning strategy from people, process, and technology perspectives, and more.

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

In addition, the out - of - level achievement tests used by Talent Search programs have been selected or designed as robust measures, giving a more complete picture of the gifted child's ability.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

«The DfE needs to adopt a more measured approach and to undertake further, robust investigation of what supports the success of the most effective sponsor chains and local authorities.»

That is why some schools, districts, and states are developing more robust performance tasks and portfolios as part of multiple - measure systems of assessment.

School climate is also commanding greater national attention under the Every Student Succeeds Act as groups work to include school discipline practices and other measures that can help make new ESSA accountability systems more accurate, robust and reflective of the daily challenges and opportunities in education.

Taken together, such measures paint a far more robust portrait of student learning and teacher performance than a single test score.

While the state is moving toward a more robust and comprehensive accountability system instead of relying mostly on student test scores, CORE says its breakdown uses more parameters to measure a school's performance.

It doesn't have that worrying feel that it's going to permanently turn the tablet wonky though and feels like a measure to make it more robust and child - proof.

A more robust and lasting measure of value uses all three valuation estimates: price - to - book ratio, forward - looking price - to - earnings ratio, and enterprise value - to - cash flow from operating activities.

A plausible, and historically reliable estimate of 10 - year nominal total returns here works out to only 1.06 * (15/22.7) ^ -LRB-.10)-1 +.022 = 3.9 % annually, which is roughly the same estimate that we obtain from a much more robust set of fundamental measures and methods.

It's a more robust test than simply measuring the performance of the cheapest stocks.

Financial impact of client referral on the pcDVM — Does a robust referral dynamic result in a healthier / more successful veterinary practice and by what measures?

«First the relatively focused, higher cost producers, and then also more diversified integrated players, as operating cash flows decline, weakening free cash flow and credit measures, and returns on investment become less certain and reserve replacement less robust.»

Debunked by the recorded temperature in the antarctic http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809512002256 In general, if you want to measure some effect lost in the sea of noise, it is better to go after the primary causes if their measurements are more robust.

SMR designs include measures to prevent hydrogen from reaching explosive concentrations, but they are not as reliable as a more robust containment — which, again, would add to cost.

What it wanted was more robust sustainability measures,» says Mainville.

It is by no means clear that the four or more bedrooms test can be made robust, and some other measure related to gross area may be designed for the purpose of phasing.

Attendees said there was little serious talk of government restrictions on content (which would present significant legal challenges), and the conversation focused on more robust age restrictions or voluntary measures that could be undertaken by the industry itself.

The move is just a part of a broader overhaul that the Menlo Park, California - based company is introducing to its platform in response to calls for more robust data privacy measures following the discovery of a data misuse affecting the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users allegedly perpetrated by Cambridge Analytica, a British data mining and political consulting firm that was hired by the camp of Donald J. Trump back in 2016 to assist in his campaign for his presidential bid.

In such case, there is a high risk of reverse causality whereby participants» depressive mood may affect their perceptions of the environmental exposures of interest (eg, neighbourhood safety from crime).21 Environmental data collected using more objective measures of the neighbourhood environment, including geographic information systems (GIS) 22 and environmental audits conducted by independent auditors, 23 are likely to provide more robust estimates of the potential causal effects of neighbourhood environmental attributes on residents» depressive symptoms.

However, despite this, patterns of associations with these two measures are in line with those reported in adult SRQ data with more robust construct validity measure [12,13].

Second, our study utilized more robust outcome measures (i.e., group - based trajectory modelling and latent growth models), capturing rich longitudinal information over childhood and adolescence which is important for following markedly different developmental trajectories.

Future work examining these mechanisms using more complex and robust measures of both parent and child identities are needed.

«Women are generally denied for mortgages more often despite their superior payment performance... we need to develop more robust and accurate measures of risk to ensure that we aren't denying mortgages to women who are fully able to make good on their payments.»