Sentences with phrase «relative difference»

The Progress 8 score is a «reflection of relative differences in Attainment 8 performance, compared with pupils with the same prior attainment», Perry told Schools Week.

Claxitone (2012) surveyed a study on 125 couples who are interested in opposite sex that got married for a long time, personality traits of both parties and relative differences of personality concepts as predictor of marital satisfaction.

I would have thought a standard process in dendroclimatology would be to normalize based on relative difference within the same sample so absolute width would not be an issue.

3) By taking the change in temperautre from 1880, the graph allows the accumulated relative difference over 110 years to distract from the very different rates of change between observations and IPCC FAR projections post 1990 (and particularly post 2000).

The data from the smartphones were only slightly different than the observed step counts (with a range of -6.7 to 6.2 percent relative difference in mean step count), but the data from the wearable devices differed more (with a range of -22.7 to -1.5 percent).

While not a huge difference in absolute terms, it's a major relative difference that means the OnePlus 5's main camera is much worse at gathering light.

The scale required to show the 2010 numbers makes it difficult to see the relative differences in the last few years, so here is the same data starting at January 2011:

These are just the relative differences compared to the rate you were getting originally, before violations.

When two countries differ significantly in their growth, productivity, tax structure, demographics, and other factors, the relative differences are typically resolved by changes in exchange rates, interest rates, and price levels.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

My point was that as the time approaches infinity the relative difference between degrees approaches zero and consequently all punishments are effectively the same in light of the length.

(It's the absolute difference in means that matters in a power calculation, not the relative difference)

There is no major ¹ party where the relative difference is as dramatic as for the Socialist Party (SP), where the proportion of the vote among voters abroad is less than 1/3 of the proportion in total.

So a tax free minimum can substantially alter both your base and the relative difference.

Each of these satellites provides a time stamp, and the system calculates your location based on the relative differences among those times.

GPS satellites are equipped with precision atomic clocks, but the GPS signals beamed down to us would veer well over a mile out of kilter each day unless they were adjusted for the relative difference in time measured by atomic clocks on the ground.

«If we insist on absolute rather than relative differences, we do not, so far at least, discover any distinguishing characteristics of our species,» they note.

The customers who reported they used labels purchased 400 fewer calories (representing a relative difference of 20 percent), 370 milligrams less sodium and 10 grams less saturated fat than the overall average.

For instance, these findings trace the relative difference in water temperature, but more study is needed to ascertain the absolute temperatures from those periods.

Direction is based on the relative difference in change analysis.

He concluded that the relative difference in the prevalence of rickets was due to sun exposure.

In contrast, 23 percent of third graders with a maltreatment investigation were retained — a relative difference of almost 50 percent.

Finally, citizens appear sensitive to relative differences in school quality within their state (as reflected in school performance on state tests) but insensitive to information on school quality in the state as a whole (as measured by statewide performance on a national assessment).

But the relative number of titles holding positions on best - seller lists is far less meaningful than the relative difference in unit sales by each publisher category.

We wanted to put those rewards into perspective to help you understand the relative difference between these credit union credit cards.

But the above does illustrate the relative differences in the two methods of investing.

As other analysts such as Jeremy Grantham and Mark Hulbert have pointed out, this relative difference in performance of the two groups is off the charts when you compare it to similar market rebounds in the past.

Grain traders will monitor spread relationships very closely as the relative difference between various contract positions will determine the handling margins or profitability of their involvement in marketing grain.

In this context, the article explained, there has been a historically high correlation between the price movements of individual securities as the relative differences in companies» operating results have been somewhat ignored.

One or two competitors do offer a slightly higher rate of 1.25 % APY, but the relative difference is marginal at best.

Of course, the relative difference in performance is just as likely to work in your favour: the replacement ETF could outperform the original during the 30 days after the switch.

Spread measures the relative difference between the municipal bond index future price and the U.S. Treasury bond futures price.

The constant that emerged was a relative difference over time between the number of animals entering shelters and the number being returned to their owner or adopted.