A censored normal model was fitted to the data, because the data used to estimate the trajectories were based on psychometric scales with censoring at the scale minimum and maximum, and this censored normal
trajectory modeling is considered to be well suited to accommodate a common feature of psychometric scale data [14].
Not exact matches
That
's a weighty mantle to uphold, and
considering the steady upward
trajectory of the German automaker
's fortunes (it
's currently enjoying 56 consecutive months of record US sales), you wouldn't expect Audi designers to throw their multi-million-dollar baby out with the bathwater when developing the
model's next chapter.
As result, the assessed value of
model's predictive power must
be considered mostly as a matter of computational curiousity, with some resemblance to historical data
being by design and as a result of subjective
trajectory discrimination.
The appropriate frame
is that they track * climate * — that
is, the «average» warming that results from
considering the many possible temperature
trajectories that reality could have taken, and which various
model runs evince.