Evan, how have these companies actually changed the way they calculate the scores?

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As the name PRVit implies, we calculate separate scores on performance, risk and market valuation for each of 8, 000 global companies, and ranks them relative to the scores for all other companies.

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City scores help multinational companies calculate compensation packages for the employees they dispatch overseas.

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Using linear algebra to calculate all the cases' authority and hub scores, Dr Fowler arrived at his list of most important cases.

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But those scores may or may not actually correlate with what lenders and insurers actually use or calculate themselves.

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