Sentences with phrase «test robustness»

The final goal of this study was to test the robustness of the relationships between widowhood and formal and informal social participation as well as formal and informal volunteerism.

Expand the use of eddy - resolving models, particularly in regional / process studies designed to: i) test the robustness of AMOC variability mechanisms identified in coarser GCMs or idealized models; ii) address the origins of persistent model bias in the North Atlantic region (e.g., Gulf Stream separation and the North Atlantic Current path); and iii) assess the role of ocean turbulence in AMOC variability.

The idea for red team, blue team climate debates originated with Steven Koonin, a physicist at New York University... Mr. Koonin in April wrote an op - ed in The Wall Street Journal calling for using the military - style exercise — in which one team attacks and another defends — to test the robustness of climate change science...

to test the robustness of correction algorithms they are tested against synthetic series in a double blind fashion

However, they apparently liked their answers and did not want to test the robustness of their findings.»

The «other papers» concerned were designed specifically to test the robustness of Mann's results to methodological and data choices and they both found that the choice of PCA selection and other criticisms have no significant effect on the conclusions of the MBH studies.

In order to test the robustness of our results in light of these specific concerns we conducted extensive new analyses in Nature that are not mentioned in the blog post.

The best studies tend to test the robustness of their conclusions by dropping various subsets of data or by excluding whole classes of data (such as tree - rings) in order to see what difference they make so you won't generally find that too much rides on any one proxy record (despite what you might read elsewhere).

I however was able to easily test the robustness of their calculations to changes in the satellite data source (RSS vs. UAH) or to updates in the surface temperature products.

In the MM07 case, it is very difficult for someone coming from the climate side to test the robustness of their analysis to updates in economic data and so that wasn't done.

To test the robustness of the medium of drawing, we began with the premise that the works would leave a permanent substrate, such as paper, and would possess a fugitive element.

First the request: I would like to test the robustness of the Impossible Dream TAA model on another country.

(Non-interlisted Canadian stocks were used to test the robustness of my approach since these stocks are very different from the US stocks based on size, liquidity and visibility).

It was the sort of narrow, twisting stretch that wouldn't have looked out of place on a Corsican rally stage and the temptation to test the robustness of the car's sump with a few big cuts was almost too much.

• How do we take those activities and test their robustness and relevance across grade levels, subject matters, developmental differences, linguistic and cultural differences, and the like?

To test the robustness of REPAIRv1, Cox et al. targeted 34 pathogenic G - > A mutations from the ClinVar database.

To test the robustness of translation, the Zaher lab set out to break it, by giving faulty mRNA transcripts to ribosomes.

To test the robustness of this finding in light of the possible effect of these 2 infants, we repeated the UniFrac analysis after reassigning those 2 infants from the mixed feeding group to the exclusively formula — fed group, and no qualitative differences in the results were observed (data not shown).

They test robustness of findings with data from selected international developed markets, different return variable specifications, different subperiods and impact of transaction costs.

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.

To test robustness of findings, they: (1) account for one - way trading frictions ranging from 0.02 % to 0.05 % across assets; (2) consider five subperiods to test consistency over time; and, (3) perform out - of - sample tests using the first part of each subperiod to select the best rules and roughly the last year to measure performance of these rules out - of - sample.

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.

We also tested its robustness with a smaller sample size in only one population (as in the Danish samples studied here), and under admixture (Supplementary Note 5, Supplementary Fig. 7).

There is nothing wrong with people putting together new chronologies of tree rings or testing the robustness of previous results to updated data or new methodologies.

«A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea - level rise» «Testing the robustness of semi-empirical sea level projections» «Kinematic constraints on glacier contributions to 21st - century sea - level rise» «Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea level rise» «Global sea level rise scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment» «Reconstructing sea level from paleo and projected temperatures 200 to 2100AD» «Global sea level linked to global temperature» «Upper limit for sea level projections by 2100»

Rahmstorf, S., M. Perrette, and M. Vermeer, 2012: Testing the robustness of semi-empirical sea level projections.

When issues are found in data that went into an analysis (such as in this case), the downstream work is re-assessed, but since the papers have already tested the robustness of the conclusions to including or not this source of data, the implications are generally going to be small.

In a follow - up video, ominously titled «Testing Robustness,» we saw a determined SpotMini fight his way through the door despite his human handler's best attempts to stop him.

Not exact matches

We use subsamples of monthly data for robustness testing.

This reflects the robustness of overall capital levels at the banks tested in the EBA led stress tests.

They focus on monthly measurements, but test the daily series in robustness test.

In robustness tests, he considers past return measurement and holding intervals of one, three, nine and 12 months.

We have made three changes to the «Simple Asset Class ETF Value Strategy» (SACEVS) based on results of robustness tests and subscriber comments:

In a robustness test for the EW Top 3 portfolio, we consider lookback intervals ranging from one to 12 months.

We face Southampton at home in the first week of December, followed by a tricky away trip to Stoke in a span of 3 days that will test Arsenal's squad depth and fitness robustness of the players.

This involved inventing mathematical and statistical techniques that can be used to predict how the electronics components will behave in the chip, and evaluating the robustness of existing tests.

The NUS team has put the device through rigorous tests and also subjected it to various strenuous deformations, such as pressing, bending or stretching, to validate the robustness and versatility of its invention.

They tested 120 neural stem cell lines in the lab for stability and robustness and in animals for the capacity to engraft with minimal immune rejection.

It is therefore customary in the field to test phenotypic robustness by studying not only the protein encoded by the most probabilistic sequence at a given node, but also the proteins encoded by alternative reconstructions derived from random sampling from the posterior probability distribution at the node.

Here we explore the power of two haplotype - based statistics — the integrated haplotype score (iHS) and the Derived Intra-allelic Nucleotide Diversity (DIND) test — in the context of next - generation sequencing data, and evaluate their robustness to demography and other selection modes.

In his opinion, the robustness of his health was a key factor in his recovery; this was corroborated by hospital tests of his immune system.

We have subjected our initial findings to a variety of robustness tests, all of which they passed.

In a conference paper presented at Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance on April 19, we subject our initial findings to a variety of robustness tests, all of which they pass.

The results are tested for robustness to alternative ways of quantifying private school regulation, and to alternative regression models, and the question of causality is addressed.

A series of robustness and placebo tests indicate a systematic influence of teacher skills as distinct from overall differences among countries in the level of cognitive skills.

Some of this month's cars demonstrated an apparent lack of restraint robustness in side impact testing.

A total of 181 prototype vehicles were built, completing over 11,000 tests over their lifetimes around the globe, ensuring total confidence in the robustness of build and design of the vehicles.»

Though the design may be old (30 years old, in fact), the vehicle's remarkable robustness, with thicker - than - average sheet metal and hand - built construction, has allowed it to sail through every government crash test with flying colors.

, its robustness, the fact that it is dust and water proof, and electronic paper's amazing battery life proved ideally suited to the gallery's needs, and after a period of testing the innovative project was good to go, and the screen turned into an e-picture frame.

The Altman Z - Score is a basic credit robustness test that uses five financial ratios in various proportions to gauge a company's health.