Their test methodology employs monthly inception - to - date regressions of annual change in LEI4 versus next - month bond return for an out - of -
sample test period of 1990 through 2011.
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sampling test period.
Not exact matches
To
test robustness of influencers, they consider: (1) subsamples to
test consistency over time; (2) daily and monthly measurements to
test consistency across
sampling frequencies (except consumer price indexes, available only monthly); and, (3) contemporaneous and one
period - lagged (predictive) relationships.
They then apply a regime - switching
test to estimate whether deviations of actual gold price from fundamental value enter bubble territory over their
sample period.
To
test the robustness of the strategy's performance, we consider a
sample period commencing with inception of SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) as a convenient and low - cost proxy for the S&P 500 Index.
It just means that there is too much randomness in the small
sample size and that the system should be
tested over more games (a longer time
period or larger
sample size).
Over the
period from 8 to 18 years,
sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized
tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.
By methodically
sampling the area inside and outside this halo — a laborious task of mapping, examining pottery, and digging small
test pits — the researchers concluded that Brak covered 320 acres in the
period between 3900 and 3400 B.C..
The study is the first large - scale, U.S. - wide comparison of organic and conventional milk,
testing nearly 400
samples of organic and conventional milk over an 18 - month
period.
To
test the idea, they drove along every street in the District of Columbia and regularly
sampled the air, mapping the concentration of methane over a
period of 2 months.
He and Ruane found and
tested an approach that includes taking a small piece of liver tissue from the snake specimen, heating it up over a longer
period of time and applying an enzyme that digests the tissue
sample and enables the DNA to be extracted.
We
tested whether the population had remained constant over the four primary
sampling periods using robust design as well as Pradel's models [26].
Populations closure
test for all the four years were consistent with the assumption that the snow leopard population was closed during the primary
sampling periods (Table 1).
You can also see your hormonal status via saliva hormone
test (examines saliva
samples over a 24 - hour
period).
Diagnosing SIBO involves a hydrogen breath
test, which has the patient ingesting sugar solutions and giving breath
samples over a
period of several hours.
Differences in
testing methods include the use of different types of blood
samples (capillary or venous), different experimental time
periods, and different portions of foods (50 g of total rather than of available carbohydrate).
It's possible to develop a pretty good picture of how schools and districts are doing using
samples of students and
samples of
test items — that's what the National Assessment of Educational Progress has been relying on for decades — and there's nothing magical about a school year that makes it the inevitable time
period over which to assess changes in school and district performance.
A
sample of approximately 2,700 participants will be recruited over a 2 - year
period to participate in two 1 - year pilot
tests.
We use the 1 percent
sample of Social Security administrative data that covers the
period from 4 years before to 4 years following the removal of the
test.
Air
samples are collected hourly during the
testing period, then averaged to determine the final radon level result.
Researchers
tested saliva
samples from ten cats and ten dogs before and after playing with their owners for a ten minute
period.
When a
sample of highly urbanized stations was
tested, the adjustments successfully removed warming bias for the 1895 - 1980
period, but left the 1980s - 2000s
period effectively unadjusted.
Which is nothing at all like the statement «It's a valid proxy because we understand the factors involved through causality
tests, I can provide a calibration and a calibration bias / error, and it
tests well in an out - of -
sample period.»
Paleo - climate simulations with the same models that are being used for the future projections allow for the possibility that we can have true «out - of -
sample»
testing of the models over
periods with significant climate changes.
By contrast, a second study provides each subject with a wide range of facial images designed specifically to evaluate different dimensions of facial recognition (skin colour, hair colour, ethnicity, facial shape, etc.), each subject is
tested over the full range of recall time
periods, and a blood
sample is taken from which serum concentrations of several well - described stress hormones are measured.
Twenty minute observation, electronic interference, digital download issues, mouthpiece replacement and failure to take breath
samples within a reasonable time
period of operation are other examples of common areas of defense when it comes to breath
test readings.
Conversely, the police want the
test done promptly as there is a legal requirement that the breath
sample be obtained within a reasonable
period of time after operation and / or arrest.
We obviously don't have an end date for the
testing period yet, as it'll depend on how fast «inevitable errors» can be fixed, but if you want to join the program later on and
sample a decently stable Oreo build, «additional rounds of registration» are promised.
The study questionnaire was developed using previously
tested questions and was pretested on a small
sample of women from the study sites to assess clarity of the questions and time required to administer the questionnaire.4, 15 The primary outcome measure was pregnancy, determined by positive urine pregnancy
test at follow - up, self - report over the study
period, or positive
test on medical chart review.
Paired
samples t
test between baseline and follow up assessment yielded no statistically significant differences at two times
period (Table 6).
Thus, the current study capitalizes on multiple informants as well as a 3 - wave longitudinal design to
test associations between early pubertal timing, peer reputation, and psychological distress among an ethnically diverse
sample of girls transitioning through the emotionally «risky»
period of early adolescence.
The focus on Germany is also dictated by the fact that it is the only country with rich, nationally representative panel data available to
test our hypotheses about the parental well - being and fertility behavior over a long
period and for a sufficiently large
sample.
I've taken courses in cost analysis and in time management where the near craziness in one project was literally tracking a
sample day in fifteen minute segments of an hour, for a 24 - hour
period to
test the validity of time wasting.