Sentences with phrase «standard assumption»

Plans determine what a participant's monthly benefit payment would be if the participant's individual account balance in the defined contribution plan were used to purchase an annuity at retirement, based on standard assumptions for interest rates and the participant's life expectancy.
«Using standard assumptions regarding immigration, fertility and mortality rates, the share of Canada's population growth coming from immigration could rise to three - quarters a decade from now, up from 60 - 65 per cent today and almost all by 2030.
Theoretical models of the remnants of massive stars in a very hot, post-red-supergiant phase display no obvious instability if standard assumptions are made.
If one assumes the the air exchanges completely in one hour (a fairly standard assumption), then the 8 - hour average concentration would be 0.025 mg / m3.]
Furthermore, the standard assumption that international oil prices will fall to the middle of the OPEC target band by mid next year also contributes to expected CPI inflation being lower than underlying inflation through much of 2004.
This largely reflects the large March 2003 CPI figure dropping out of the year - ended calculation, as well as the Bank's standard assumption that international oil prices will fall to the middle of the OPEC target band within about a year.
Real EFFR plotted with one - year percent changes in investment (not shown) from 1954 to 2016 reveals a small and weak positive relationship between rates and investment — the reverse of the standard assumption.
The standard assumption is that the relevant population consists of UK citizens, but David Owen argues forcefully that non-citizen residents and non-residents should also have representation in a CC.)
«It would mean that all our standard assumptions about space - time and effective local theories are wrong, at least when gravity is important,» she says.
Königl starts with the standard assumptions that the dark cloud from which a star is born possesses a magnetic field and that in the immediate vicinity of the new star the direction of the field is consistent: If you drew lines indicating the orientation of the magnetic field, they would all run parallel.
The standard assumption was that a singularity could form only if a perfectly spherical star collapsed with perfect symmetry, the kind of ideal conditions that never occur in the real world.
He makes the standard assumption that the Universe began with the big bang and that its properties are determined by only two numbers: the Hubble constant, which describes the present expansion rate of the Universe; and omega (& Ogr;), the mass density of the Universe.
While the standard assumption is that finding a car with AWD means heading to a Subaru or Jeep dealer, Chrysler and Dodge can appeal to an even greater audience by offering the systems on their mainstream sedans.
David Dreman, James O'Shaughnessy, Lowell Miller and others have demonstrated conclusively that the standard assumptions about risk and return are FALSE.
The standard assumption is that the retiree wants to know what withdrawal rate will allow the retiree to live for 30 years after the retirement begins, taking an age - 65 retiree to age 95.
So for most of the 32 years that I've been at Yale, the standard assumption for endowment returns for -LSB-...]
The standard assumption has been that, while heat is transferred rapidly into a relatively thin, well - mixed surface layer of the ocean (averaging about 70 m in depth), the transfer into the deeper waters is so slow that the atmospheric temperature reaches effective equilibrium with the mixed layer in a decade or so.
Starting at a picked point because of its characteristics (cherrypicking) COMPLETELY violates the standard assumptions of using OLS for inference.
Traditional geothermal is essentially mining hot groundwater, and geothermal fields of that nature have limited lifetimes — 30 years is the standard assumption.
Notions of collective responsibility are dismissed as being contrary to the «standard assumption» of individualism (101).
Our knowledge base, however, is insufficient to quantify the effects of climate change on many of these metrics because of conceptual challenges posed by climate change to standard assumptions, as well as practical data and methodological hurdles; insufficient understanding of how such metrics capture the way people actually feel; and, for non-monetized values, sometimes resistance to calculating them at all (Sussman et al 2014, Neumann and Strzepek 2014).
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