Sentences with phrase «of model assumptions»

These scores will be analysed as continuous outcomes, with appropriate checking of model assumptions because the data are negatively skewed.

However, there a couple of recent discussions on the accuracy of climate model feedbacks on the credibility of model assumptions and on ability of models to accurately model past known climate change on Anthony Watts» blog that I think are pertinent to this debate and interesting:

I don't know how to do this but there must be some enterprising academics out there who can find ways to substantiate some of the model assumptions with real data rather than continuing to tweak computer models to «find» the right formulas I would rather we did real science and found the parameters by experiment.

This, «pause», hiatus, slow down or whatever has lots of folks reviewing «known» physics that lead to a lot of model assumptions.

They were also insensitive to the details of the biological tree growth model over a reasonable range of model assumptions.

The test of model assumptions is not the same as a test for bias.

Since future teachers can not directly affect students» current achievement, a finding that future teacher assignments are associated with those outcomes («the future predicts the past») suggests a violation of the model assumptions that could lead to confounding.

Quantitative MR estimates of blood oxygenation based on T2 *: a numerical study of the impact of model assumptions.

Overall, this work is accessible to a general audience; however, Randers's limited analysis and justification of model assumption restrict the usefulness of this book as a stand - alone text.

Not exact matches

If you like the principle of Occam's Razor, that among competing ideas, those with the fewest assumptions should be selected, you can get rid of the one - dimensional model.

HOWEVER... said the report summary: «Under the assumption that e-cigarette use increases the rate at which adults quit conventional smoking, modeling projects that use of e-cigarettes will generate a net public health benefit...»

It's worth noting that the binomial model for the number of winners has an extra assumption: that lottery players are choosing their numbers at random.

Use real customers to test the assumptions of your business model.

The more likely culprit is unconscious bias, a set of assumptions that cause recruiters or managers to overlook candidates because they don't fit their mental model of the ideal employee.

Test all business model assumptions, ranging from the notion of the customer problem to the hypothosized revenue stream.

It is essential that the right financial model be used and that correct assumptions be made in forecasting the anticipated benefits, costs and returns of the new value proposition being considered.

Many a desktop computer has been purchased specifically to take advantage of these programs, which allow even an unsophisticated computer user to change a few critical assumptions and, in the blink of an eye, recalculate an entire financial model (see «How VisiCalc Works,» INC., November 1981, page 104).

The model on which it was based is a marvel of restrictive assumptions: an economy that is closed to trade, expectations about inflation that are essentially myopic, interest rates that are largely impervious to the demand for credit and investment that is largely impervious to interest rates.

«Our traditional assumptions of ownership are really frustrated by these digital distribution models,» said Aaron Perzanowski, an associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Mundell's model was extremely simple and included a number of heroic assumptions, but it accurately reflected important elements of the world in which open economies operate.

The problem is when investors adopt theories and models that embed the most optimistic assumptions possible, run contrary to historical evidence, or embed subtle peculiarities that actually drive the results (see, for example, the «novel valuation measures» section of The Diva is Already Singing).

One implication of that particular model was that a 1 % increase in interest rates would send stocks plummeting by 50 %, but nobody brought that up because nobody took the time to examine the assumptions of the model seriously.

I think Joan has explained repeatedly what we see as the bands for growth, with a 10 - year model, with a stock price somewhere around — you know, in terms of assumptions that we've used — $ 85 stock price with another $ 25 to $ 30 of cash income.

anything that is held as a store of value willingly can not be used to tie down the price level path (except via strong modeling assumption likes the last period exchange of real debt for real goods in the FTPL for example).

Moreover, I am sceptical of many of the underlying assumptions and calibrations in these models.

If any of the assumptions used in the Black - Scholes model change significantly, stock - based compensation expense may differ materially in the future from that recorded in the current period.

Model - based investing takes that type of embedded assumption error and multiplies it.»

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the company's BlackBerry 10 smartphones; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

I believe strongly in the need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).

This news release contains forward - looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding: BlackBerry's expectations regarding new product initiatives and timing, including the BlackBerry 10 platform; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding new service offerings, and assumptions regarding its service revenue model; BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives, and the anticipated opportunities and challenges in fiscal 2014; anticipated demand for, and BlackBerry's plans and expectations relating to, programs to drive sell - through of the Company's BlackBerry 7 and 10 smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets; BlackBerry's expectations regarding financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014; BlackBerry's expectations with respect to the sufficiency of its financial resources; BlackBerry's ongoing efforts to streamline its operations and its expectations relating to the benefits of its Cost Optimization and Resource Efficiency («CORE») program and similar strategies; BlackBerry's plans and expectations regarding marketing and promotional programs; and BlackBerry's estimates of purchase obligations and other contractual commitments.

«Most of the assumptions behind the CAPM model do not come close to reality - at least not on this planet» David Dreman

Obsolescence is hard to model and can make a mockery of the detailed financial assumptions underlying buyouts.

The assumption of abundant natural gas could be wrong — many «experts» are not even thinking of vastly different outcomes to their models.)

The objective of this customer validation process is to validate your sales process and the assumptions that underpin your business model.

Develop modeling instincts so modelers know what assumptions are reasonable and likely to result in dependable results, and what parameter ranges are realistic to account for invariable deviations of reality from models.

The problem with the Fed Model is that it presumes a one - to - one relationship between those two yields, an assumption which is an artifact of the disinflationary period from 1982 to 1998.

At Valuentum, we often use a discounted cash - flow model as a means to back into the current share price of firms in order to ascertain whether the market is unfairly pricing their stock relative to reasonable long - term growth and profitability assumptions.

When you say «Copernicanism», are you referring to the heliocentric model of the solar system — which David's post discussed — or are you referring more broadly to the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe?

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

As Bernstein discusses, the dominant intent of Easton and others has been to develop a study of politics «modeled after the methodological assumptions of the natural sciences» (EPA 8; see RSPT, part I).

We build up a simplified model of reality by making assumptions about how the world works, and then we try to assume everything away apart from that specific issue we are focusing on.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

The underlying assumption behind all the models in this chapter is that a congregation has an exciting possibility and responsibility to create a comprehensive marriage and family nurture program, beginning with remote preparation for marriage and extending through all the changing seasons of the life cycle of a family.

Yes, Bigfoot would force us to modify our map of known species, but it wouldn't completely invalidate the Standard Model and all of our working assumptions about the observed properties of the natural world.

Process - theological models stand generally under the cosmological assumption of an infinite process of the production of always new events without end and aim — an assumption, to which Whitehead gave the name of the «remorseless working of things in Greek and Buddhist thought» (PR 244).

But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt policies oriented to economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this model.

In that role we share the thrill of discovery, and model the courage and humility necessary for letting go an old assumption in order to receive something new.

The teacher can bring out the role of inductive and deductive reasoning, the construction of conceptual schemes and models, idealization and simplifying assumptions, quantitative measurement and the controlled experiment.

@Lawrence of Arabia, A mathematical model by definition is an approximation based on certain assumptions, such as the existence of zombies, without which it means nothing, but the math still works.

Models that try to explain how life can come from non-life, and models that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make itModels that try to explain how life can come from non-life, and models that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make itmodels that try to explain how something can come from nothing... THOSE kinds of models where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make itmodels where un-observable assumptions must be inserted into the math to make it work.