Brazil has set itself the goal of reaching the average standard of the OECD over the next decade.
According to data collected by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor, big law firms raised their average standard rate by about 9.3% over the past three years.
Uswitch calculated figures for the BBC showing the difference between the average standard plans (payment on receipt) and the average online price among suppliers in the UK for dual-fuel gas and electricity bills.
Bush wants to reduce U.S. gasoline usage by 20% by 2012 through a massive increase in the renewable fuels standard and a hike in the corporate average fuel economy standard for cars and light trucks.
Placing asset categories on the efficient frontier requires knowing their historical average return and standard deviation.
Bullish sentiment is just slightly above one standard deviation from the historical average and bearish sentiment is within one standard deviation.
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Nowadays, candid and intelligent people--not to mention partisans--tell us that the average American's standard of living has barely budged in decades.
The average interest rate for standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 6.01% during the week ending April 25, from 6.04% the previous week.
Once you know the average return, the standard deviation of each index and the correlation coefficient between each pair of indexes, the rest is math.
The AA Insurance Shoparound survey takes an average premium for a standard set of risks from the five cheapest quotes from insurers and price comparison websites.
If you rank the countries of the world in terms of the academic performance of their schoolchildren, the U.S. is just below average, half a standard deviation below a clump of relatively high-performing countries like Canada and Belgium.
The gray area around the average line shows the two standard deviation range of the data.
Bearish sentiment is back to being more than one standard deviation above average, making it unusually high, but not extraordinarily so.
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The Yankees' .714 winning percentage that year was .214 above the average, while a "standard" club was no more than .123 over.
Bullish sentiment is unusually low, but it would have to fall below 18% to be considered extraordinarily low (two standard deviations below average).
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The Bank of England's figures show that as of last November, the average credit card interest rate was 15.89%, while the average interest rate for a standard variable rate mortgage was just 3.98%.
In a high percentage of data centers today, these racks would be populated with servers one or two generations old, depending on corporate refresh cycles, and the average server would be a standard 2u height.
There have been just 50 occasions since 1973 when this ratio was greater than one standard deviation from that average, as it is now.
Accounts receivable days is a standard measure of the average number of days a company takes to collect payment on goods or services it sold.
Bearish sentiment has been at or above 41% during three out of the last four weeks, equaling or exceeding one standard deviation above the average.
Then, by 2025, the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard rises to 54.5 mpg, a level of fuel efficiency that has virtually ever carmaker stretching to come up with new technologies.
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First, at least 33 percent by volume of the sales to an allegedly targeted group must be at prices that are less than one standard deviation below the average price to all other groups.
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We found that when earnings yield spreads during the prior five years averaged more than two standard deviations above the average, investors on average earned (annualized) returns on stocks of 21.3% for the following year, 17% for the next two years, 14.6% for the next three years and 8.3% over five years.
In statistical terms, optimism is more than one standard deviation above the historical average.
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Two standard deviations above the historical average is 50.7%, and levels above that mark are outliers.
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Because RR Lyrae stars have the same average brightness, astronomers use them as standard candle distance indicators.
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The document said the standard of work was below average in all year groups and in most subjects.
Pessimism is more than one standard deviation above its historical average, which makes it unusual, but not extraordinary.
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Optimism is currently more than one standard deviation beyond its historical average, meaning that this is an unusually high reading.
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