Sentences with phrase «relative weight used»

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Provides the strategic rationale and relative weightings of the financial and non-financial performance metrics or criteria used in the annual and performance - vested long - term incentive components of the Plan;

A weighting system is also used which further ensures that survey responses have an appropriate impact on the results according to the relative importance of the sector they operate in and the size of the company.

We used the standard error of the logarithm of the relative risk, or the number of events if the standard error was unavailable, as weights in the regression; if both were unavailable, we did an unweighted log - linear regression for the study.

Massive guns are built using compound movements, heavy enough weights (of course, «heavy» is a relative term), good technique and full range of motion.

In general, using a 1RM calculator in order to estimate your max strength and comparing it to your current body weight can tell you if relative strength is improving.

If you accurately track your food intake, you can also use your food logs to estimate your energy needs based on whether or not you gain or lose weight relative to how much you've been eating.

Comparing free weight and machine squats, while some researchers have reported lower erector spinae muscle activity in the Smith machine squat than in the free weight back squat, with both the same absolute (Anderson and Behm, 2005) and relative (Fletcher and Bagley, 2014) loads, Schwanbeck et al. (2009) found no differences (using the same relative loads).

Use the BMI to classify overweight and obesity and to estimate relative risk of disease compared to normal weight.

Conventional weight training (using either barbells with just weight plates, or constant - load machines) involves comparatively higher peak forces relative to the percentage of 1RM used, slower bar speeds, and a peak muscle contraction at the start of the concentric phase, where muscle lengths are longest.

On the baseline questionnaires, we requested information about age; weight and height; smoking status; physical activity; history of diabetes in first - degree relatives; use of postmenopausal hormone therapy; use of oral contraceptives; and personal history of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers.

To calculate the Summary Rating, we use weights for each rating / flag based on the available data; the amount of information available about the school relative to other schools in the state; the amount of variability in the data; and the extent to which each data point has been proven to be related to student success in college and for long - term life outcomes.

Using this approach, each indicator's percentage weight is the relative weight of that indicator compared with the whole.

Weightings for each category were calculated based on the total points or percentage points a school can earn for each indicator, or the relative weighting of each indicator if a system did not use a performance index.

So while it's OK to change your winter weight, given that your oil will be «cold» relative to operating temperature, it's not advised to use a different operational weight, unless you modify the engine to run a different set of operational parameters, which is seemingly out of the scope of this query.

Kobo analyzes the titles in a user's library, and automatically extracts the main topics of interest — using unsupervised machine learning techniques — and creates a weighting of these interests based on their relative importance to the user.

The plan is to create a risk - managed portfolio by using a sector - neutral, relative - value, equal - weight discipline.

Also, performance dispersions can occur due to the equally - weighted sector approach used relative to the cap - weighted S&P 500.

Decomposing performance of the S&P 500 EW relative to the S&P 500, using 2 Factor Brinson Attribution (showing sector allocation and security selection effects) illustrates the historical impact of EW variation relative to the cap - weighted benchmark.

The relative strength model uses an equal weight allocation for the model selected assets, whereas the adaptive asset allocation uses either risk parity allocation or minimum variance allocation for the model assets, i.e., it either equalizes the risk contribution across the selected assets or weights the assets in order to minimize the expected volatility.

I think it's probably accurate that most people could use a higher relative China weighting if their goal is to replicate the performance of the world economy.

By using an approximate time - weighted rate of return (such as the Modified Dietz method), investors will be better able to gauge their performance relative to index benchmarks.

Also, in this case, we had the relative weights of the S&P 500 and the Completion Index to use as guides, but once we start adding more funds with potentially more overlapping holdings between them, calculating a simple ratio may not work nearly as well.

Using the S&P 500 and the completion index as relative weights gives you (14.7 +3.4) / 14.7 = 81.2 % and 1 - 0.812 = 18.8 % for VIIIX and VIEIX, respectively.

For particular groups — for example, people who have not been using credit long — the relative weight of these categories may be different.

The relative strength model uses an equal weight allocation for the model selected assets, whereas the adaptive asset allocation uses either risk parity allocation or minimum variance allocation for the model assets to minimize the expected volatility.

Rather, they are both using standard cost - benefit logic, only differing in the relative weighting that they use to reduce intangible costs and benefits to weigh - able estimates.

However, the use of the uniform prior generates its own paradoxes in the tails of the distribution, where very high relative likelihoods arising directly from the measurement are overwhelmed by the summed probability - weighted likelihood along the length of the flat interval.

The six measures include net spending on imported coal, net weight of imported coal, per capita spending on imported coal, spending on coal relative to the size of the state economy, reliance on net coal imports relative to total power use, and spending on international coal imports.

Lee, K., Suh, S., 1999: Determination of Weighting Factor for Eco-indicator using the Relative Significance Factor (fi), J. Korean Society of Life Cycle Assessment, 3 (1) 31 - 40.

Thus extra warmth of the warm year 1878 (strongly affected by the 1877/78 El Niño) in the Northern relative to the Southern Hemisphere in the area weighted average (not shown) disappears when optimum averages are used.

The equivalence scale used in the current study is the European Union scale (a modification of the OECD equivalence scale) where the first adult is given a weight of 1, subsequent adults are given a weight of 0.5 and each child < 14 years of age is given the weight 0.3.40 From this measure of family income, we calculated the proportion of adolescents in relative poverty, defined as having an equivalised household income < 60 % of the equivalised national median income for that particular year (eg, to calculate relative poverty proportions for 2004, we used the median income for 2004).