Even though using the 5 - year average FCF yield on mid cap companies (third best
single factor we tested) over the test period would have given you a higher return than the 12 - month FCF yield, the results for the other market size companies would have been a lot lower.
In the following table we show how all
the single factors we tested met our criteria of being classified as a strong factor.
Not exact matches
... I will say, the
test scores [are] never, ever the
single most important thing,» she said, adding that officials consider
factors such as student enrollment, capacity and other locations where students can receive better resources.
A
single environmental
factor — a past infection with common cytomegalovirus — affected 58 percent of the
tested parameters.
However, the vast majority of these studies are confounded by
testing too many
factors at the same time and then
singling out saturated fat consumption to blame for heart disease.
Every prospective member is required to complete an extensive personality
test, based on Costa and McRae's famous Five
Factor Model, the results of which are then used to pair you with likeminded
singles.
OKCupid is a free online dating site that provides a well - designed interface, interactive features, personality assessment
tests and a math - compatibility
factor to help millions of
singles find ever - lasting love in their lives.
As the state notes of its system, «A central tenet of AchieveNJ is that educators are never evaluated on a
single factor or
test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning.»
Consistent with other research on school effects, we find that the school a student attends can explain a substantial share of the overall variation in
test scores: that
single factor explains 34 percent of the variation in math scores and 24 percent of the variation for reading.
Economists Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann concluded that the two
tests measure «a common dimension of skills,» and that the scores can be aggregated to form a
single national - level indicator of cognitive ability predicting economic growth.6 Psychologist Heiner Rindermann referred to that common dimension as a «g -
factor,» standing for general intelligence.
This defied previous consensus on the existence of a
single, general intelligence or «g
factor» that could be easily
tested.
[The move was especially ironic considering early childhood education is considered the
single most important
factor in producing better educational outcomes for students and Governor Malloy's «education reform plan» calls for expanding the amount of early childhood programming in those districts that have lower
test scores]
First, I told him that teachers worry that the metric, based on a
single standardized
test, may be too unreliable to separate out their individual impact from the influence of other
factors, both within and beyond school.
And, in a nod to concerns that the NCLB law placed too much emphasis on a
single test score in rating schools, the measure calls for states to consider other
factors in gauging school performance, such as school climate and teacher engagement.
«As a central... tenet, we believe that educators should never be evaluated on a
single factor or
test score alone, but on multiple measures of both effective practice and student learning outcomes.»
Rollover Resistance
Test: Forecasts the risk of rolling over in a
single vehicle crash based on statistical and dynamic
factors.
Almost all of the
factors and smart beta strategies exhibit a negative relationship between starting valuation and subsequent performance whether we use the aggregate measure or P / B to define relative valuation.9 Out of 192
tests shown here, not a
single test has the «wrong» sign: in every case, the cheaper the
factor or strategy gets, relative to its historical average, the more likely it is to deliver positive performance.10 For most
factors and strategies (two - thirds of the 192
tests) the relationship holds with statistical significance for horizons ranging from one month to five years and using both valuation measures (44 % of these results are significant at the 1 % level).
IPCC (in its new AR5 draft) no longer simply writes off other solar forcing
factors as «controversial» with a
single paragraph (as it did in AR4), but spends some time discussing and rationalizing away the GCR cloud hypothesis being
tested at CERN.
Among over 350
factors tested, law firm size is the
single largest driver of law firm rates.
As opposed to the old rules, under which internships were supposed to satisfy all six
factors in order to qualify as a valid unpaid internship, the new rules state that the primary beneficiary
test is a flexible one in which no
single one of the seven
factors can automatically determine whether an internship qualifies as unpaid or must be paid.
After canvassing the leading substantive - consolidation standards and cases, Judge Jernigan determined that consolidation is appropriate under any
test; her decision turned on a litany of facts and
factors, including that (i) the company's «nerve center» is its Texas headquarters and all payroll for employees is effectuated from there, (ii) the company's centralized cash - management system and three bank accounts, (iii) all debtor entities were controlled by common officers and directors, (iv) the existence of substantial intercompany claims, (v) credible testimony demonstrated that preparing individual schedules was extraordinarily difficult and required numerous amendments, (vi) a substantial amount of creditors treated the debtors as a
single unit, and (vii) that credible counsel had determined that the primary assets of many debtors — D&O litigation claims — are jointly owned by the debtors.
Conventional fair use may require only a
single test to determine fairness, but the Canadian fair dealing / fair use hybrid comes close by ensuring that virtually all uses will meet the purposes standard and proceed to the second - stage, six -
factor analysis described above.
A nested chi - square
test comparing the one vs. two
factor model indicated that the 2
factor model (correlation =.69, 95 % CI =.61,.77) fit significantly better than a
single factor model (nested χ2 [df = 1, n = 1,647] = 54.34, p <.001).
Based on the factorial structure of the original version of the
test we expected
factor loadings in a
single factor.
The most apparent is that
single measures of absolute concentrations of salivary cortisol, for most health - related variables, seldom give significant findings; deviation measures, in terms of diurnal deviations and / or laboratory stress
tests seem to be more strongly and consistently associated with a number of
factors, such as Socioeconomic Status (SES), psychological characteristics, biological variables in terms of overweight and abdominal fat accumulation, and mental and somatic disease.
The established 5 -
factor model was compared against a 3 -
factor model (externalizing: conduct problems and hyperactivity; internalizing: emotional and peer problems; and prosocial
factors) 7 and a 1 -
factor model (ie, Harman's
single -
factor test).