Sentences with phrase «valid estimates for»

I hope this explains so we can now get onto focusing on what is needed to get valid estimates for SCC.

Remember, the only valid estimate for work is in written form called a «contractual bid,» submitted by a qualified person who is going to perform the work.

Not exact matches

The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a valid and historically reliable approach for estimating prospective future market returns.

Detailed data regarding breastfeeding exposure and adequate control for confounding factors are necessary for valid estimates of the relationship between breastfeeding and later intelligence, but no study to date has fulfilled these requirements.

Regrettably, we could not specifically compare immigrant and native Hispanics; there are not enough data about older U.S. - born Hispanics to generate statistically valid estimates of total life expectancy for the purposes of comparison.

The estimations of Brown were made for a planet transit search centered on the Galactic plane in Cygnus (matching the Kepler field) for a sample of stars brighter than 12, and Brown considers these estimates to be valid to within a factor of 2 for the ground - based surveys that were the subject of his study.

Current PM2.5 and O3 air pollution concentrations were estimated for each county with a valid design value for 2013 - 2015 (available at https://www.epa.gov/air-trends/air-quality-design-values).

Eight assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year - olds.

In some applications, having an estimate of a program effect that is valid only for compliers is problematic, because it would be useful to know what would happen if the program were expanded to other populations.

[11] Together, the analyses that follow come closer than heretofore to a valid estimate of the market price for center - based care for normally developing young children under five years of age who are receiving such care for a substantial number of hours each week.

One valid challenge in estimating DC gains for which there are no available answers is how to treat gains under Rhee between public school students attending charter and non-charter public schools.

The above evidence strongly suggests that accounting for course tracks is important to obtaining valid value - added estimates in middle and high school, but we do not yet know how well this solves the problem.

This too has implications for validity in that, again, teachers or teachers» value - added estimates should fall in the same ranges, if and when using similar tests, if any valid inferences are to be made using value - added estimates.

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The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a valid and historically reliable approach for estimating prospective future market returns.

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The ability of a sampling method to accurately measure seasonal variability does not indicate that the method is valid for estimating trends over centennial time scales.

Using those estimates, and assuming that the uncertainties are uncorrelated for year to year (not strictly valid for spatial undersampling, but this gives a conservative estimate), one can estimate the odds of 2014 being a record year, or of beating 2010 — the previous record.

The estimate of 3 + / -1 deg C (for doubled CO2) based on paleo - data and model studies is therefore still valid, even after this program.

In the end, I suspect that the F&R method and it's decedents are no more valid methods for estimating trend than simple OLS from linear regression.

I don't think that uncertainties on the strength of warming form a valid reason for not acting, but the difficulties in estimating where each policy choice leads is a bigger impediment.

Sensitivity equals dT / dF is only valid for an absolute temperature and absolute forcing over a small range of change and since the current «state of the artistry» «surface temperature average» requires using anomaly from very cold locations with very little energy per degree of anomaly, what «surface» is averaged impacts the estimate of «sensitivity».

Without a sound estimate of costs and benefits of policy options (including the do nothing option), there can be no valid justification for governments implementing policies to mitigate GHG emissions.

Until we have an acceptable central estimate and uncertainties for the damage functions, there can be no valid justification for GHG mitigation policies if the policies will do economic harm (as any policies that increases the cost of energy will do).

You have no idea how to place numerical ranges on the «basic controlling factors» that would ensure that such a calibration remained valid over the entire timeframe of the reconstruction, nor do you have any idea how you would obtain numerical estimates for the actual conditions of these factors..

Since the scaling factor used is based purely on simulations by CMIP5 models, rather than on observations, the estimate is only valid if those simulations realistically reproduce the spatiotemporal pattern of actual warming for both SST and near - surface air temperature (tas), and changes in sea - ice cover.

Large margins of error in polar bear population estimates means the conservation status threshold of a 30 % decline (real or predicted) used by the US Endangered Species Act and the IUCN Red List is probably not valid for this species.

It is also the case that even had Marvel et al.'s efficacy estimates and calculations been valid, they would have had no material implications for the Otto et al 2013 TCR and ECR estimates.

I think this could be another reason why the derivation of the IPCC's formula for radiative forcing from CO2 offered by Bindidon is not valid, since that derivation involves the assumption that our estimate of the global mean surface temperature can be converted directly into an estimate of global mean surface radiance by a simple application of the Stefan - Boltzman formula, which you have pointed out is not necessarily true.

Thus, to help demonstrate that the findings are valid, the study authors — in addition to estimating PROSPER's effects for the final sample of 28 communities — conducted a second analysis that omitted the two replacement communities in the PROSPER group along with the two control communities with the highest overall rates of substance use at 6.5 - year follow - up, so as to provide a conservative (lower - bound) estimate of PROSPER's effects.

MVPA models were estimated using data from families whose children wore the accelerometer for at least 4 of 7 days and had valid data for all predictors (N = 311 for authoritative and authoritarian models and 313 for permissive models).

Screen time models were estimated using data from families who had valid data for screen time and all predictors (N = 402 for authoritative, 401 for authoritarian, and 404 for permissive models).

While we would not suggest that our numerical estimates can be applied directly to the general population, there are nevertheless good reasons to think that the Stanford housing market provides a valid laboratory for studying the effects of interest.»

Accordingly, proposed § 1026.19 (e)(3)(iv)(F) would have provided that a valid reason for revision exists on construction loans when consummation is scheduled to occur more than 60 days after delivery of the estimated disclosures, provided that the consumer was alerted to this fact when the estimated disclosures were provided.

The Bureau has considered the comment but believes that mistakes made by the mortgage broker should not be included among the valid reasons for a settlement charge to exceed the amount originally estimated for the charge.