Sentences with phrase «of measuring variables»

Cups bring in a whole set of measuring variables, and tend to get hopeful macaron bakers into trouble: \

Table 1 reports summary statistics of the measured variables and the factor loadings of the hypothesized factor structure.

Not exact matches

But it's also superior in terms of standardization and reproducibility, with the environment engineered to control for and measure a host of variables, from ambient air temperature to the length of rubber tubing, that often get overlooked.

In addition, Air Canada has an Altman Z - Score, a common measure of a company's financial health, that assess variables like working capital, sales and earnings as a proportion of total assets, of 0.62, which suggests the possibility of bankruptcy.

While there are no specific studies that measure this variable, franchise operators typically take the pride of ownership very seriously.

This has created a third tier of services, after the means of production and distribution: the means of optimization, the opportunity for (and obligation of) any entrepreneur to be constantly measuring and perfecting every variable in the company.

(R - square is a statistical measure that reveals how well a regression line — the line of best fit you see — explains the relationship between two variables.

In that case, the number of bookshops, which is a systems output — generated organically by the size of the city, the rate of literacy, the income of residents, and other relevant factors — would serve as a proxy for literacy, while population or income would serve as proxies for whatever variable one wants to measure.

In their October 2009 paper entitled «Risk Sentiment Index (RSI) and Market Anomalies», Guy Kaplanski and Haim Levy introduce the Risk Sentiment Index (RSI) as a measure of the residual risk contained in VIX after accounting for the statistical and economic variables most predictive of future stock market volatility (such as previous month actual volatility and VIX).

(Peter Surda): you can not design a synthetic commodity whose supply mirrors macroeconomic aggregates, because these aggregate variables are exogenous to the network (whereas the hashing parameter of networks like Bitcoin only depends on time and the number of blocks in the blockchain, which from a perspective of the network are endogenous), so they can not be unambigiously measured.

Operating margin measures how much profit a company makes on a dollar of sales, after paying for variable costs of production such as wages and raw materials, but before paying interest or tax.

One variable we track closely in this regard is market breadth, a measure of a stock market's underlying health.

Their variables measure how open and competitive the electoral system is and how controlled the executive is in its use of power — not the perfect measure of Hallow's idea, but the best that we have.

If you payoff your debts, or at least the high and variable - rate variety, you'll be removing a large measure of uncertainty from your life.

A measure of this discounting is only available with a significant lag, but the latest figures suggest that around 80 per cent of borrowers taking out variable - rate housing loans pay less than the indicator rate for these loans.

The five intertemporal choice variables were standardized and transformed into a singular continuous scale that measured the number of low - discount or high - discount choices made by the respondents.

Even if it was a good measure of altruism, the other problems with such experiments still apply, and «experimenter demand» effects are common confounding variables.

The interconnectedness of measured spins here is not explicable by «local hidden variables» theories, yet it implies that the metaphysical foundations of QM require further refinement.

The reason why Whitehead believes that it must be independent is that only if it is a system of relations independent of the changing, variable, physical characters of material objects can it serve as a frame of reference in terms of which the self - congruence of material objects under transport — which makes them suitable as measuring standards — can be determined.

Now, if measurement can be significant only if the measuring rod is free of all deforming influences, not simply those attributed to the influence of «differential» forces, then given a space - time continuum of variable metric structure, no set of conditions can be specified to ensure that the measuring rod does not undergo deformation in its length as it is transported from point to point during the process of measurement.

Four of Buck's indices — communication, technology, bureaucratic organization, and money and market complex — seem to measure this variable very well.

There are, of course, many variables which affect a program's popularity as measured by audience size; finding the right combination of these variables is one of the arts of the broadcast programming industry.

I have borrowed five of Buck's ten indices in order to measure two of the three variables.

The report noted that «not all children become aggressive, of course,» but that «the correlations between violence and aggression are positive,» indeed as strong as «any other variable behavior that has been measured.»

You can generally measure economic risks using quantitative variables showing the development of the country as well as its potential weaknesses and risks.

There are so many variables than it is very hard for me to guess where you went wrong but I would always begin with your flour blend (you must use one of my recommended blends), be sure you are measuring by weight, not volume, and be sure you are using an oven thermometer as most ovens run hot.

The change in load cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.

you're measuring performance without taking into account many of the variables that exist via the eye test, so save the condescending bs for someone else because you should know by now it doesn't fly with me.

The variables they measured included everything from litter size and age at weaning to adult female body weight and length of the estrous cycle among 135 primate species (including humans).

Baseline variables were measured using established valid instruments and were used as covariates to adjust for differences between randomisation groups in some of the analyses in the paper.

Place of birth research has been plagued with controversy over study design, variables to be measured, cohort definition and other factors specific to this context.

When political scientists can not measure the phenomenon of interest directly, they sometimes use a proxy (or «instrument») that is closely correlated with the variable of interest.

Programme type is a more direct and objective measure of the independent impact of IMF programmes compared to the proxy variable based on geographical location.

You could not directly measure sleep (via EEG / EMG signals), or manipulate any of these environmental variables to actually determine causation in any relationships you may find.

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Then the researchers examined the acoustic data, measured in decibels of energy, alongside the measured environmental variables.

Because the study design leaves open the possibility of confounding variables that were not measured, the results can not be definitively interpreted as causal evidence that PMI reduced child mortality rates.

«Remarkably, the two most easily measured variables, water depth and the physical structure of the reef before disturbance, predicted recovery with 98 % confidence,» Dr Graham says.

Beginning at left, astronomers use Hubble to measure the distances to a class of pulsating stars called Cepheid Variables, employing a basic tool of geometry called parallax.

For continuous variables, distributions should be described using graphical displays such as scatterplots, boxplots, or histograms or by reporting measures of central tendency (e.g., mean or median) and dispersion (e.g., SD, interquartile range).

William and Stillwell chose to study green roofs over other forms of green infrastructure for a very simple reason: There was one on campus fitted with the instrumentation needed to measure soil moisture, rainfall amount, temperature, humidity and many other variables that are plugged into their fragility curve model.

«We showed that the model accurately represents what we measured in cities, so now we can use it to conduct sensitivity studies, where only a single variable — the percentage of the city covered by impervious versus pervious materials — changes,» he said.

Even with all the variables in their origins, type Ia supernovas have still remained essentially the same brightness, and the basics of how they measure distance are unaltered.

Economic prosperity influences political and societal variables, but is difficult to measure in many countries of the world.

Sleep variables were measured by seven days of wrist actigraphy along with sleep diaries.

In addition to air pollution data from state and local air agencies, these MESA Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 2009.

Meta - analysis is an advanced statistical procedure that allows the researcher to merge the results of all the studies regarding a specific topic into a quantitative measure representing the size of the overall effect of one variable on another variable.

A new generation of researchers who think about how best to measure variables such as patient preferences and quality - of - life issues is coming of age now, McDonald adds.

When an object, such as a piece of plastic or wood, was burned in the chamber, the device measured a range of variables.

Babrauskas's invention made it possible to investigate fire using classical scientific methodology: setting a fire, measuring the results, reproducing those results, and then repeating the experiment with a new set of variables.