Sentences with phrase «weighted against the average»

The sum of all of your risk values are then weighted against the average national claims rates of other drivers who share your characteristics.

Not exact matches

For example, despite the fact that more than 85 % of outsiders (average shareholders) voted AGAINST the creation of a third class of stock (class C) in 2012, the weight of the insiders» 10 votes per share allowed the passage of this proposal.

For example, despite the fact that more than 85 % of outsiders (average shareholders) voted AGAINST the creation of a third class of stock (class C), the weight of the insiders» 10 votes per share allowed the passage of this proposal.

The CEER index is a weighted average of bilateral exchange rates for the Canadian dollar against the currencies of Canada's major trading partners.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

A: The pay - for - performance model measures the company's weighted average executive compensation percentile rank for its top five executive officers against the company's weighted average performance percentile rank within a group of 15 peer companies.

Therefore, conceptually, if two people already - as universally supported - don't necessarily have the same voting weight (you can have a vote taken away from you for presumably doing wrong to society), what is the moral / philosophical argument against having select people being given additional votes for presumably doing more than average for society?

Vaccinating pregnant mothers year - round against flu in the resource - challenged region of subtropical Nepal reduced infant flu virus infection rates by an average of 30 percent, increased birth weights by 15 percent and resulted in babies having less influenza, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Weighted RCR is essentially defining an average paper's scientific impact based on actual citations as 1 (normalized by research field), and a given scientist's output can be compared against the average by adding together the citation count for that scientist's papers to give the Weighted RCR over a given period of time).

Eccentric load in some of the basic, compound strength training exercises can range anywhere between 120 % and 140 % as a combination of 1/3 of weight on the bar — on an average 45 % to 65 % of 1RM — and 2/3 of weight on each additional plate so that, upon release, an increasing amount of force can be applied against lighter weights.

However, people all over the world live on 2 meals a day and if you compare their weight and fitness against the average American I have no doubt who will come out on top.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

This paper asks some critical questions of the concept of commodities as an asset class, noting that, historically, futures contracts have been an inconsistent hedge against inflation, and the historically high average returns of commodity futures portfolios were driven largely by choice of weighting schemes.

Finally, based on the different rates of return on the chosen asset classes, assign multiple sets of weights to each asset class and compare the total weighted average rate of return under each set of weights with one another and against the expected investment return as defined in the investment goals.

This means that, far from being weighted 7 times in favour of the original, unadjusted buoy data, it's weighted 7 times * against * it (prior to SSTA averaging, see below).

The assimilation - weighted average of this discrimination against 13C, quantified as Δ13C [Farquhar et al., 1989], is routinely measured in the carbon - based remains of plants preserved as fossils, such as the highly durable leaf cuticle [Beerling et al., 2002].

The total sum of these values is weighted against the national claims average for other motorists who share similar attributes.

The total sum of your characteristics is then weighted against the claim average for people who share your traits.

The sum of these risk values is then weighted against the national claim average of motorists who share your characteristics.

The sum of these values is then weighted against the national claims average for motorists who share similar attributes.

The total sum of these risk values are then weighted against the national claims average of motorists who share similar traits.

We then compared our weighted average against the lowest premium we found.

The sum of these values in then weighted against the national claims average of motorists who share similar traits.