Sentences with phrase «than point estimates»

One rule is that we should examine confidence intervals rather than point estimates of teacher - specific value - added scores.

Not exact matches

The 0.3 - percentage - point estimate is slightly higher than most expectations but well below Republicans» assurances.

According to estimates from eMarketer, spending on digital ads in the U.S. will likely grow this year to the point where it is larger than the amount spent on television, the former Goliath of the industry.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

Case in point: the estimates indicate that hospitals will purchase 10 to 20 percent more portable equipment than they actually require for operational needs.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

While it's hard to quantify the dollar amount transacted with mobile wallets, Parks Associates estimates that proximity payment transactions — which require users to tap their phone at a point - of - sale terminal — generated more than $ 30 billion in the U.S. in 2016, a figure that's expected to top $ 300 billion by 2022.

Inflation is estimated to rise by somewhat less than 1/4 percentage point per annum over 2 — 3 years.

Last week in London, for example, an analyst from a research company with whose views I am usually in strong sympathy and who herself is very bearish on China's growth prospects, airily dismissed Chinese debt concerns by pointing out that Chinese government debt, even after adding back estimates of losses in the banking system, is lower than that of the Japanese government, and because the government's debt burden has not been a problem in Japan it won't be a problem in China.

Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts» consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7 percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.

Likewise, house - price inflation amplified more than estimated in the August Inflation Report during the third quarter, while the RICS survey of real - estate agents pointed to a fall in prices over the next three months.

According to the minutes of the meeting, a 25 - basis point increase in the bank rate was fully factored in by the markets in the run - up to November's MPC meeting, and the interest - rate curve underlying the November Inflation Report projected interest rates at 1 percent by the end of the three - year forecast period, higher than the recent median estimates of economists polled by Reuters.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

While some people question whether VIX is too low, it is worth noting that the average levels for Bloomberg's estimate of A-T-M implied volatility were 2.6 points lower than the VIX Index.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

The second estimate is 0.1 percent point less than the 2.6 percent growth rate recorded in the first or «advance» estimate....

This new calculation now implies that a 1 - point change in the corporate tax rate would change corporate tax revenues by only $ 1.3 billion, rather than the original estimate of $ 1.7 billion.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

The revised data including the financial intermediation service charge suggest a slightly higher debt - servicing ratio over recent years than that indicated by the RBA's earlier estimates, with the revised ratio averaging 1/4 — 1/2 of a percentage point higher over recent quarters.

Case in point: An estimated 30 percent of PSLF - eligible borrowers have more than $ 100,000 of loans, according to the Brookings Institution.

A friend points out that the rate of attrition of American Jews is much higher than the standard estimates suggest.

Christianity Today also points out that there are far fewer evangelicals than estimated: 8.9 percent in Costa Rica, not the estimated 24 percent; 19.3 percent in Guatemala, instead of twice that many.

S&P + (for years before 2005, I use an estimated version of S&P +, based on points scored and allowed), you have to go back to 1993 to find an IU defense that ranked higher than 50th.

Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called «ordered probit estimates» do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: «Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.»

For a number of outcomes (induction of labour, augmentation, opiate analgesia, caesarean birth), the point estimate was less than 1 and the upper limit of the 95 % confidence interval just exceeded 1.

Our estimate puts Remain and Leave within four points or less of each other in no less than 58 council areas.

He estimated that private equity costs around five percentage points more than public financing but that it was often worth it, especially for more complicated and risky projects.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

It is remarkable that the UKIP share of the Euro vote was a full 10 points higher than the average of the estimates of the local election vote share (PNS and NEV).

Erie County has an estimated 32,000 residents with dementia, and at some point 60 percent (or more than 19,000 people) will wander from their homes or become lost.

The Democrats pointed to a benefit similar to one in Massachusetts offering a deduction for undergraduate loan interest with no income or total deduction limit as potentially helping more than 1 million New York students save an estimated $ 90 million per year.

Putting all these factors, and some smaller ones, together John Curtice estimated in 2011 that the Conservatives would need a lead of more than 11 points on current boundaries to win a majority, while Labour could secure one with a lead of just three points.

And the CBO also pointed out insurance companies would have been able to charge older people more for health care, and estimated the impact on low - income senior citizens would be larger than under the ACA.

While heaping plates of rehash were served up, Cahill did make the point that in his estimation Hein has more than enough in surplus stashed away to easily weather the estimated $ 6 million hit the part - year loss of a percentage point on the sales tax will cost the county.

«Our very first estimates are for rings less massive than we originally thought, which would indeed point to a very young age,» says Linda Spilker, Cassini's project scientist at JPL.

In their commentary, the authors point out that between 1990 and 2015, the prevalence of Parkinson's more than doubled and it is estimated that 6.9 million people across the globe have the disease.

Those who watched a demo video 20 times estimated that they would score more points than those who saw the video only once — this high - exposure group also predicted that they would be more likely to hit the bull's - eye and reported that they had learned more technique and improved more after watching the video.

Most people in South Florida, an estimated 54 percent, think global warming is already harming people in the United States, also 6 points higher than the national estimate.

Three - quarters of those surveyed by phone correctly estimated the number of calories they should consume daily, but this was true of less than half of those surveyed at point - of - purchase.

This is significantly older than previous estimates based on mtDNA, confirming recent observations from autosomal markers that brown and polar bears from a genetic point of view represent highly distinct species.

«Our estimates show that the growth in Chinese emissions has slowed a lot in the past two to three years, and is now much lower than at any point since the early 2000s,» said study lead author Jan Ivar Korsbakken, senior climate economics researcher at CICERO.

New estimates released from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012 - 22, or 1.0 percentage point faster than the expected growth in the gross domestic product (GDP).

Waters pointed out that race cars and racetracks do more than thrill an estimated 90 million motorsport fans in the United States alone.

Cole Miller of the University of Maryland in College Park finds this reasoning convincing, but points out that both groups of astronomers relied on particularly complex models to estimate the temperature of a star from its brightness, rather than measuring the temperature directly.

At any given point, an estimated 250,000 people with severe mental illness are in prisons and more than a million on probation or parole in the U.S..

This means it has a more elongated orbit than Sedna, another distant Pluto - sized object, whose closest approach is 76 AU and whose estimated far point reaches 937 AU.

The US Energy Information Administration estimates that more than 8 billion cubic metres of gas are lost each year somewhere between the point of production and reaching homes across the nation.

[Angel Hsu et al, Development: Mobilize citizens to track sustainability] It's the same team who previously used satellite derived estimates to point out that New Delhi has smog as bad or worse than Beijing.

While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S., fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher than inventory estimates.»

You must think in terms of ranges rather than just point estimates.