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deviation - 1. An alteration from the typical form, function or behaviour. Mutation or stress are the common reasons behind deviation. 2. A statistical term describing the difference between an actual observation and the mean of all observations. [FAO] News archive for deviation. Insurance News Net,This is achieved by decreasing the standard deviation (narrowing the probability distribution). * Economy. Make sure losses are kept within a tolerable Stromsdal Oyj: Stromsdal minutes of extraordinary general meeting ... - 21 Aug 2007 Kauppalehti (press release),...unanimously decided to issue for subscription maximum of 11222221 new shares in deviation of the pre emptive subscription right of the shareholders. For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations - 21 Aug 2007 Washington Post,...anticipate what the firm called "25 percent standard deviation moves" or events so rare Goldman had seen them only twice before in the firm's history. Industrial Test Systems Announces Free Chlorine Water Check Test - 21 Aug 2007 Water Online (press release),For example, the validation studies showed that free chlorine recovery was approximately 100% and relative standard deviation (RSD) was generally below 20% Mall project back on track - 21 Aug 2007 Lincoln Journal,Section 4C comes into effect if the Planning Board has granted a deviation under 4B. It permits these deviations to continue only until there is a change in Notice to Attend Annual General Meeting in Elekta - 21 Aug 2007 Business Wire (press release),With deviation of the shareholders’ preferential rights, the Company’s subsidiary Elekta Instrument AB, shall be entitled to subscribe, with the right and Hearts beat for India, five head honchos unfurl Tricolour on Mt ... - 21 Aug 2007 Pune Newsline,...“In Swahili, they say Poley, poley—meaning steadily, steadily, a deviation from our slow and steady philosophy. I realised it’s also more effective and it Ogawa pre-tax profit up 16.8pc - 21 Aug 2007 Business Times - Malaysia,...director Louis Chong said the decision to fully expense start-up costs in new overseas markets accounted for a substantial percentage of the deviation. APS outlines goals for Cochran - 21 Aug 2007 Adrian Daily Telegram,Administration will maintain no more than a half of a percent deviation, positive or negative, from the total costs of the district approved by the board in R&S Launches Spectrum Analyzer Covering 20 Hz To 67 GHz In A - 21 Aug 2007 RF Globalnet (press release),AM, FM, and phase measurement demodulation capability are also optionally available for determining frequency deviation and the frequency settling of Stir against Coca Cola to continue - 21 Aug 2007 NewKerala.com,If there was any deviation from the promise made, then a state-wide agitation would be conducted, he added. Mr V Venugopal said though the relay hunger DESIGNING FOR THE STARS - 21 Aug 2007 Science Friday,Newman’s new suit is an obvious deviation from the bulky models that have been around since the earliest space missions forty years ago. Bank Of New York - 21 Aug 2007 TradeSignals,Bollinger Bands (20-Day Average +/-1 Standard Deviation): As prices are closer to the bottom band than the top band, the Bollinger Bands are indicating EA explains on-rails approach to Medal of Honor Wii - 21 Aug 2007 NintendicThe EA man sat down to explain the decisions behind the deviation from the World War II simulator’s safe ground. Mr. Tomprowski explained that what makes Scouting For Girls @ Night & Day - 21 Aug 2007 Manchester Evening News,But it soon became apparent that the piano followed the bass, the bass followed the drums and song followed song, with little deviation. Real Tape Echo - 21 Aug 2007 Sonic State,Also, a precision custom made fly wheel ensures no noticeable pitch deviation (WOW and Flutter), compared to that of the old tape echo device. Envy: the most underrated sin and maybe the most consequential - 21 Aug 2007 Baltimore Sun,Agricultural methods remain traditional and primitive, to the detriment of the whole village, because every deviation from previous practice comes up Are banks checking norms compliance? - Aug 20, 2007 Hindu,Valuers, who visit sites to determine the amount of deviation in loan request sites and plans, say that financial institutions have their ‘tolerance limits’ The G5 Deviation - Aug 17, 2007 Kommersant,The tender for choosing a designer to create an engine for the G5 fighter jet has born no fruit. In the end, the RF Defense Ministry decided to give money Clements: Analyzing your stock portfolio’s risk - Aug 18, 2007 Kansas City Star,If you own funds, check out two key measures, “standard deviation� and “beta.� You can find both statistics by looking up your funds at Morningstar.com. Javed assails ‘deviation’ from Charter of Democracy - Aug 5, 2007 Pakistan Dawn,GUJRANWALA, Aug 5: PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, who was released from the Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore on Saturday, was warmly welcomed when he ‘No deviation in Pak-India peace process’ - Jul 29, 2007 Daily Times,NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Sunday there had been no deviation in the ongoing peace process between Pakistan and South Africa: Outlook Remains Overcast for the JSE - Aug 20, 2007 AllAfrica.com,The next level of support on this standard deviation plotting is currently just below Euro 1/R10,90 and there is a second support at about Euro 1/R11. HOW DO YOU FIND THE STANDARD DEVIATION OF RISK FOR A STOCK? - Aug 12, 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch,One of the measures of risk is given by the standard deviation. For mutual funds, the year-to-date return and the standard deviation are readily available. Cariboo-North riding at risk in restructure proposal - Aug 19, 2007 Quesnel Cariboo Observer,Under the proposal for new electoral district areas and boundaries, the new Cariboo-Chilcotin riding would be 45104, a deviation of -11.2 per cent. Deviation from morals, a source of human misery: Leader - Aug 11, 2007 MehrNews.com,11 (MNA) - “A deviation from morals and spirituality is the origin of all problems in the world including wars and insecurity,� Supreme Leader of the There seems to be nothing constructive about it - Aug 20, 2007 Hindu,To differentiate between violation and deviation could be as difficult as hair-splitting. “Enforcement of rules is the problem,� said K. Ramadoss, No deviation in Pak-India peace process : Mukherjee - Jul 29, 2007 Associated Press of Pakistan,NEW DELHI, July 29 APP:Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said there was no deviation in the ongoing peace process between Pakistan Central bank chief says inflation rate can be kept low - Aug 13, 2007 Taipei Times,Between 1998 and last year, the average inflation rate was 0.79 percent with a standard deviation of 0.95 percent, Perng said, underlining his confidence on How to find a fund that doesn't make your eye twitch - Aug 3, 2007 USA Today...•Standard deviation measures how much a fund's returns have varied from its average return. It's a useful measure of your fund's volatility. NASA's global warming misinformation needs full retraction - Aug 14, 2007 American Thinker,Did NASA use the 30 year period to exaggerate the deviation? Moreover, the nominal annual deviation of a selected period is not necessarily meaningful. N. Cariboo could lose an MLA - Aug 16, 2007 Williams Lake Tribune,The commission used a complicated formula to re-draw the boundaries, with a riding population quotient of 50784, but allowed for a deviation of up to 25 per Limitations of computer models - Aug 14, 2007 Financial Times,In particular, the computers had failed to foresee recent market movements to such a degree that they labelled them a “25-standard deviation event� Business Valuation Firm Highland Global Announces the Release of ... - Aug 15, 2007 PR Web (press release),For the second quarter of 2007, the average discount to NAV was 6.2% with a median of 5.9% and a standard deviation of 4.1%. For the first quarter of 2007, Market downturns - Aug 14, 2007 Financial Times,Goldman Sachs says its quantitative funds experienced “things that were twenty-five standard deviation events�. Leveraged buy-out deals – from the auction One Question for David Viniar - Aug 14, 2007 Conde Nast Portfolio,...“We were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves, several days in a row,� said David Viniar, Goldman’s chief financial officer. IOP fluctuation may cause visual field deterioration in patients ... - Aug 16, 2007 OSN SuperSite (subscription),The researchers divided eyes into two groups based on the standard deviation in postoperative IOP. The first group had IOP fluctuations greater than two Market News: TradeSignals Coca-Cola Co Morning Commentary - Aug 20, 2007 TradeSignals,Bollinger Bands (20-Day Average +/-1 Standard Deviation): As prices are closer to the bottom band than the top band, the Bollinger Bands are indicating Goldman's CFO: Short Truth or Long Ego? - Aug 16, 2007 The Money Times,In it, David Viniar attempts to excuse the implosion of Goldman hedge funds by claiming, "We were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves, Technorati Founder Steps Down as CEO - Aug 17, 2007 Marketing Vox NewsThe CEO transition and smaller staff may be a sign that deviation from the site's original focus - blogs - may have been an overstep. Gujarat using unqualified pilots for VVIP chopper: DGCA - Aug 20, 2007 Times of India,After each incident there has been call for stringent rules for such flights and a deviation from set norms is bound to raise heckles of civil aviation MPF scheme investment performance crucial - Aug 15, 2007 News.gov.hk,Unlike fund fact sheets using annualised standard deviation as the risk indicator, fund-marketing materials may simply apply risk level without any Living in a HALF-WAY HOUSE - Aug 14, 2007 Deccan Herald,Deviation because it dawned on the leadership that the complexities of a rapidly globalising post-cold war world demanded a more flexible and innovative Suman Bery: An inconvenient truth - Aug 20, 2007 Business Standard,In his August piece, Acharya attributes the recent deviation from past practice to arguments “peddled in recent months by some IMF staffers and a small Three Dems battle for IA lead - Aug 3, 2007 DesMoinesRegister.com,What’s striking about Edward’s numbers is recent changes in his “standard deviation,� a very rudimentary statistical tool to measure volatility around an Prioritizing Progress - Aug 20, 2007 Transitions Online,This sort of student-driven, personalized education is a sharp deviation from the rigid communist structure that was the norm in Moldova for decades. Playing equity for the gains? Think again - Aug 7, 2007 Daily News & Analysis,We took one-year T-bill yields at the end of every month from November 2003, found out the standard deviation (which is a measure of volatility, A List of Stocks Poised for a Strong Post-Earnings Move - Aug 2, 2007 Schaeffers Research,The higher the stock return average and the lower the standard deviation, the more confidence a trader can have in the post earnings reaction. Scenic route: Simon Calder gets lost in the Pyrenees - Aug 20, 2007 Belfast Telegraph,At marker post F404E we narrowly – and unusually, correctly – concurred on the right path to take, thereby avoiding an international deviation into Spain. When it comes to slant, newspaper readers rule - Aug 11, 2007 Vancouver Sun,With this information, they were able to compute the slant that would maximize readership for each paper and estimated that even a small deviation from what archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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