As sensors and crowdsourcing give us ever more granular data into the norms and deviations of the world around us, enterprising developers and hardware companies have trotted out various combinations of atoms and bits to package that awareness, sometimes paired with recommendations, into products.
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Bollinger bands, were developed by John Bollinger and generally are calculated by plotting two standard deviations above and two standard deviations below a 20-period moving average.
"Argo" claims to be based on a true story rather than to constitute a scrupulous retelling of exactly what took place, and its deviations from reality have been documented.
It makes us feel sharp, intelligent, and savvy to see the pieces as we think they are, to lay them out in front of us, to know the details and the deviations.
Traditional medicine is today most often characterised by a wide variety of diverging practices which lack a solid legal and medical framework that could prevent deviations and abuse along with their potentially dangerous consequences for patients.
The yellow and red lines represent one and two standard deviations from the mean ratio, respectively.
Stunningly, the typical answer-based tutoring systems average an effect size of around 0.35 standard deviations, and all three of the step-based, substep-based, and human tutoring cluster around an effect size of 0.75 standard deviations.
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The key to this effort will be designing and implementing a credible and efficient process to determine which agency deviations from a standard set of requirements are truly required and what would be the best way to accommodate those deviations.
The use of the Fed to peg nominal interest rates at artificially low levels, fine tune the yield curve, incentivize risk taking, monetize government debt, and inflate selected asset prices by allocating credit are deviations from sound money and free markets.
As the general population improves, standard deviations shrink and outliers move closer to the average.
Provide recommendations on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensure that approved recommendations are applied correctly.
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Since small deviations are common and large ones are rare, the result of plotting data in this way is a curve shaped somewhat like the cross-section of a bell.
The existence of Neptune was deduced from minute deviations between the predicted and observed orbits of Uranus.
That is, everywhere and always I predict Malthusian stagnation because deviations are not evolutionarily stable.
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But it is possible to detect minute deviations in this signal, and these fluctuations - seen as mottling in the map - are understood to reflect the differences in the density of matter when the light parted company and set out on its journey all those years ago.
Other companies re-evaluate your bill every few months to account for big deviations in your average energy usage and adjust your payments up or down accordingly.
Then you check your results (looking for deviations between what you were expecting and what actually happened) and finally, if necessary, you alter and improve the process.
In general, central banks prefer to target the inflation rate, partly because a price-level target is harder to explain, and partly because the need to reverse previous deviations from target may make output more volatile.
In complex systems, the slightest variation in initial conditions can create large deviations in future system conditions over time and not necessarily in predictable ways.
The standard deviations are 11 percentage points for bullish sentiment and 10 percentage points for bearish sentiment.
To make all the curves comparable, he expressed the values of the actual deviations as fractions of a standard deviation, and their frequencies as proportions of their total number.
Conservatives had been willing to tolerate Mr Bush's deviations from the path of orthodoxy over government spending and the educational bureaucracy as a necessary price for wooing suburban voters.
The 1975 Cincinnati Reds of Pete Rose and Joe Morgan, winners of 108 games and a world championship, scored more than two full standard deviations above the rest of the league.
"We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy, " Deputy Commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli told the Associated Press.
The software detects the slightest deviations of facial movement in the eyes, cheeks, and mouth, tracking whether a person smiles, grins, or breaks out in laughter.
For the statistics fans out there, that is a whopping three standard deviations away, a level that historically has been unsustainable and yielded to a sharp, albeit brief, upturn in stocks.
The normal practice in weapons purchases is to transition to fixed pricing only after technologies and designs are sufficiently mature so that cost estimators can anticipate possible deviations from the plan.
Two standard deviations above the historical average is 50.7%, and levels above that mark are outliers.
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Only eight teams in MLB history have outdone the league by more than two standard deviations, including the 1984 Tigers, the 1986 Mets, and the Yankee clubs of 1998 and 1941.
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