Sentences with phrase «standard deviations away»

Polls seek to reach a 95 % confidence level which is two standard deviations away (in either direction) from the mean or centre of the curve.

They take the temperature anomaly at each location and divide it by the standard deviation for that location to determine how many standard deviations away from normal the temperatures at that location were.

Fischoff showed one of the experimentally determined speed of light values, from back when speed of light was not the definition of the meter, was 42 standard deviations away from the best accepted value of later experiments.

Now, the best you can see is that if you take the lowest (and most consistently revised upwards) interpretation of the satellite data, it doesn't quite manage two standard deviations away from zero.

Now, the best you can see is that if you take the lowest (and most consistently revised upwards) interpretation of the satellite data, it doesnâ $ ™ t quite manage two standard deviations away from zero.

For much of the season, the sea ice was tracking close to long - term norms, though it had a precipitous decline in July, and is now almost two standard deviations away from the long - term average.

To define the distinction between within home - range movements and transit, for every fix we determined the distance from the cumulative mean home - range centroid, kept a running standard deviation, and deemed any fix greater than two standard deviations away from this range to represent an abrupt move outside a home - range boundary.

Bollinger Bands are showing the volatility of the price by plotting two bands, the upper and lower band, two standard deviations away from a simple moving average (SMA).

As mentioned before, plotting the bands two standard deviations away from the moving average, means that almost 90 - 95 % of the price - action is contained inside the bands.

The chart above shows the Bollinger Bands plotted on GBP / JPY, with standard parameters of a 20 - period SMA and upper and lower bands plotted at two standard deviations away from the moving average.

While the best runs of Closing Range are only 1.56 standard deviations away.

Now our statistical books tell us that one standard deviation on either side of the mean includes 68.26 % of the population, two standard deviations include 95.46 %, three include 99.73 %, four include 99.99366 %... Now, 700cc is very nearly 4 standard deviations away from the Bushmen's mean of 1159.

«We now know something like an enstatite chondrite was the starting material for Mercury, which is surprising, because they are about 10 standard deviations away from all other chondrites,» Grove says.

It's a couple of standard deviations away from the norm.

We recently experienced another dislocation in the market where stocks and ETFs were showing prices that were, and I'm guessing here, a ridiculous amount of standard deviations away from what would be considered normal.

Basically, this recipe from The Kitchn is already one standard deviation away from regular pancakes because of... Continue reading →

That would have brought the score up to 17 and much closer to being only one standard deviation away from your average.

I set the average to 0.5 points, then the cutoff for each level above or below that is one standard deviation away from the average.

The yellow area covered in one standard deviation away from the average in both directions accounts for approximately 68 % of the outcomes in a period.

Not exact matches

In the example at the top of the page, the simple average is 25 % and the standard deviation is 75 % (since the data points of +100 and -50 lie at a distance of 75 away from the simple average); in this case the estimate gives the exact answer of zero for the CAGR:

And suppose newspapers only report on big news, that's (say) one standard deviation or more away from the mean.

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

The great majority of these cold events were only minus 1 standard deviation -LRB--1 sigma) away from the mean (light blue).

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

We at GMO define bubbles as a two standard deviation move away from the long term trend.

As the data table and the chart clearly illustrates below, the standard deviation takes returns away from the expected return.

In a common definition of risk, the standard deviation or variance takes rewards away from the investor.

Standard deviation is a measure of the volatility, or how far away from the mean the outcomes will be based on probability.

Standard deviation provides a credible model for understanding the probability of outcomes far away from the mean (average).