Sentences with phrase «of a standard deviation on»

The Monte Carlo simulation presents results in the form of standard deviations on a bell curve.

We see pretty dramatic returns to experience on the order of 15 - 20 percent of a standard deviation on test scores over the first five years.

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

Adjusting for that possibility yields an adverse impact of nonprofit management of 18 percent of a standard deviation on math performance and 14 percent on reading scores.

The impact of each intervention component is shown in terms of standard deviations on the horizontal axis.

The Monte Carlo simulation presents results in the form of standard deviations on a bell curve.

As a bonus these will also work on the Nintendo Switch and a number of other non-Android devices that support the USB Type - C standard, although it's stated that it won't quickly charge these devices as the original manufacturer's cable will because of some standards deviation on those products.

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The gap between the earnings yield on the S&P and Baa corporate bonds is over two standard deviations in favour of stocks.

As for last week's market activity, Jones said that on Thursday we saw a five standard deviation (that's a volatility measure) kind of movement in one day.

Volatility profiles based on trailing - three - year calculations of the standard deviation of service investment returns as of February 28, 2017.

On average, 2.40 unique equities experienced a mini flash crash between 9:30 — 9:33 during the period, with a standard deviation of 1.51 unique equities.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

On a bell - curve, about 95 % of your observations will be within two standard deviations one way or another, so only about 2.5 % of your observations will be beyond «two sigma» on the upsidOn a bell - curve, about 95 % of your observations will be within two standard deviations one way or another, so only about 2.5 % of your observations will be beyond «two sigma» on the upsidon the upside.

This move is unusual also because gold has had a monthly standard deviation of ± 5.5 percent based on the last 10 years» worth of data.

Based on the last five years» worth of data, the NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index has had a monthly standard deviation of ± 9.4, but last month it plunged 20 percent.

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

VRP here differs from that in the referenced research in three ways: (1) it is a volatility premium rather than a variance premium based on standard deviation rather than the square of standard deviation; (2) it is implied volatility minus expected realized volatility, rather than the reverse, and so should be mostly positive; and, (3) estimation of expected realized volatility is much simpler.

We focus on gross compound annual growth rate (CAGR), gross maximum drawdown (MaxDD) and rough gross annual Sharpe ratio (average annual return divided by standard deviation of annual returns) as key performance statistics for the Top 1, equally weighted (EW) Top 2 and EW Top 3 portfolios of monthly winners.

Their belief in God and Bible is cradled in their system of absolute certainty that allows no deviation from an absolute standard of doctrine which is presumably based on a singular understanding of the Bible.

They are not normal, the deviation is not standard, it rises and falls based on environmental causes and the behavior of the parents.

He exudes the fact that he's doing me the favor — and man, he really is — but I forge on, explain my story, and what I want to get out of all this: to finally know what makes Wisconsin college football's great exception, the success story beyond a standard deviation, the one team that has won almost as much as anyone over the last 25 years with talent far below its peers.

Without looking, I would have put a lot of money on the Bruins being in the top 5 in standard deviation.

People may vary on how they define «outlier» depending upon their specific industry — in my work I typically view outliers as things more than 3 standard deviations from the mean (standard in many industries because 99.7 % of data falls within + / - 3 standard deviations)-- but nobody in his right mind calls 1.1 standard deviations an outlier because that would exclude over 25 % of the data.

Our daughter was more than 2 standard deviations off of normal in several places on the Q — basically a seriously dysregulated brain.

* Average level of DHA in worldwide breast milk is 0.32 % + / - 0.22 % (mean + / - standard deviation of total fatty acids) based on an analysis of 65 studies of 2,474 women.

Thus, the Gaussian - distributed quantitative variables were expressed on the basis of the mean and standard deviations, while the non-Gaussian-distributed variables were expressed in median and quartiles.

† Average level of DHA in worldwide breast milk is 0.32 % ± 0.22 % (mean ± standard deviation of total fatty acids) based on an analysis of 65 studies of 2,474 women.

Third, 52 MPs receive a budget for accommodation in their constituency, which varies between # 10,400 and # 18,625 (averaging # 13,300, standard deviation of # 2,600) depending on the constituency band and number of dependants (an extra allowance of # 2,425 is paid for each dependant).

«It does appear,» he said, «that on many, many different human attributes — height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability... there is a difference in the standard deviation and variability of a male and a female population.»

«The mean provides estimates for how many bushels the firm can expect on average, while the standard deviation captures the expected variability in the growth process,» said Bansal, who worked with Genaro J. Gutierrez, associate professor of information, risk, and operations management at the University of Texas at Austin, and John R. Keiser, of Dow AgroSciences.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as maternal depression, family income and parental alcohol use, the researchers found that for every 3 - point (one standard deviation) increase on the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ; a commonly - used measure of depressive symptoms) on the part of fathers, there was an associated 0.2 - point increase in the adolescent's MFQ score.

Walker said that the effect of one standard deviation increase in the overall inflammation score in mid-life on brain volume decades later was similar to the effect associated with having one copy of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 gene that increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Despite the lack of sensory information, we found that animals were remarkably precise and consistent in timed behaviors, with standard deviations on the order of 100 ms. To examine the potential neural basis of this precision, we recorded from single neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP), which has been implicated in the planning and execution of eye movements.

The analysis in Figs. 6B and 6F shows that inclusion of small structures into analysis does not significantly affect the results but affects only standard deviation of the particle size distribution indicating that the results are independent on the setting of the limit for the size of lipid containing structures.

Now our statistical books tell us that one standard deviation on either side of the mean includes 68.26 % of the population, two standard deviations include 95.46 %, three include 99.73 %, four include 99.99366 %... Now, 700cc is very nearly 4 standard deviations away from the Bushmen's mean of 1159.

Regions of differentiated were defined both based on the proportion of fixed differences to shared polymorphisms and on a Z - score higher than three (three standard deviations departing from the median FST over all windows)-RRB-.

After calculating the mean and standard deviation of our datasets, we determined proteins with expression levels below the mean minus the standard deviation as not expressed to discretise the gene expression to an on / off value (see Methods for details).

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Using the national standard deviation to scale all scores, the effect of attending a private school on black students is only one - fifth to one - quarter as large as the black - white gap.

Students who went on a tour of Crystal Bridges experience a 6 percent of a standard deviation increase in historical empathy.

A teacher in New York State is considered to be ineffective based on her students» test score growth if her value - added score is more than 1.5 standard deviations below average (i.e., in the bottom seven percent of teachers).

Students at high - poverty schools score 11 percent of a standard deviation higher on the cultural consumer scale if they were randomly assigned to tour the museum.

In the first year of the program, the bonus program boost to math scores was, by our estimates, 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 student - level standard deviations.

This sharp increase in teacher performance is about 0.27 of a standard deviation (see Figure 3) and suggests that previously low - performing teachers who opted to remain on the job undertook successful efforts to improve.

In high - poverty schools, we estimate that the overall effect of all teacher turnover on student achievement is 0.08 of a standard deviation in math and 0.05 of a standard deviation in reading.

The overall results — the average for the three subject areas — indicate an average positive impact on student achievement of 4 percent of a standard deviation whenever the teacher - student gender was the same (see Figure 3).

My best estimate is that it lowers test scores for both boys and girls by approximately 4 percent of a standard deviation and has even larger effects on various measures of student engagement.

On average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scoreOn average across middle and high school math, TFA teachers out - performed veteran teachers by 0.07 standard deviations, the equivalent of 2.6 additional months of instruction or helping a student move from the 27th to the 30th percentile on a normal distribution of test scoreon a normal distribution of test scores.

Examining longer - term effects, however, the study's authors found that double - dosed students» scores on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade) were 0.15 standard deviations higher, the equivalent of closing roughly 15 % of the black - white achievement gap.

We observe the average score by school, year, and grade on each exam, which we scale to have a mean of 0 and standard deviation of 1 in each year, grade, and subject.