Based on historical data, only about 4 or 5 of these 13 drugs will become blockbusters.

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Obviously, this point is a summary of the previous two, but it is also based on historical data.

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Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust in Chicago, said forecasts of the snow's impact were based on historical data.

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The IPCC relied on a combination of studies, some making determinations based on historical data, others basing their results on climate model output.

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The difficulty is that much of the data that founds the projections made are based on historical data and record-keeping, and the projections made are best guesses, not true predictions.

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Based on historical GDP data, residential investment and services related to housing are not nearly as important to GDP growth as consumer spending.

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These algorithms are based on a ton of historical data and trading patterns related to a variety of trading scenarios such as forced selling and short squeezes, as well as actions of smart money and actions of the momentum crowd.

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Point out historical sites based on gps data?

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Based on, among other things, historical data and forecasts, it answers pressing questions for many manufacturers.

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San Francisco-based Kaggle is a successful startup based around the idea of competition: Companies send data to Kaggle, which provides them to teams of data scientists who compete to come up with the best predictive models for that data, based on historical results.

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We have estimated historical data for number of YouTube users based on information from several sources like Comscore, mashable.com, and multichannel.com.

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For an investor who is unsophisticated in the science of encrypted data transmission, such as myself, I can still make an investment analysis based on historical cash flows from this IP.

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