Sentences with phrase «somewhat arbitrary threshold»
Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).
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Versus Q1, that's two more startups crossing the (somewhat arbitrary) valuation threshold and joining the club of so - called «unicorns,» a term Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined in 2013 for startups worth at least $ 1 billion.