Perhaps the most important uncertainty, though, is that caused by a lack of enough good-quality, long-term, internally consistent data.
Overall, consistent data is just one operational element to master, but it is a critical one for any business aiming toward successful competition and gaining market share.
The only consistent data point we have observed over the five-year horizon is that a majority of active equity and bond managers in most categories lag comparable benchmark indices.
This is consistent with data from the last 8 years when the share of Big Pharma has hovered between 25% and 40%.
Finally, consistent polling data show that the Israeli public understands the need for a strike and would be willing to accept whatever consequences flow in its wake.
The goal is to amass a consistent set of data across a broad geographic region and sense it periodically to develop temporal data sets.
LaKind and Goodman wrote they excluded survey respondents who omitted their age, body mass, smoking behavior or other variables to keep the data consistent.
And this certainly is consistent with the data in the chart, which show that the poverty rate no longer is falling and instead bumps around between 12 percent and 15 percent.
In fact, the data are consistent with a 34% increase in cancer death, and don't rule out an 84% increase.
Ministry of Education and Science data shows consistent increases in the number of students at four year universities since 1983.
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The data is consistent with capital outflows from Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, the strategists said.
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These number are consistent with decades of data that I compiled for my recent book, The Power of Passive Investing.
However, she adds that this assumes biomarker data is consistent given the FDA stance on the issue and the unmet medical need.
The hospital trust said the latest data showed consistent improvement.
The data is consistent with an economic contraction across the board, which includes France and Germany, and is a presage of further fragility to come, given falls in new orders, low levels of business confidence, and signs of distress in the periphery.
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Combine this with consistent positive U.S Data and you have stock market stair stepping higher.
The reported data should be consistent with market consensus that U.S. growth is improving.
We endeavor to ensure our analysis of that data is conducted with rigor and consistency, as our ability to achieve a nuanced understanding of the security environment is dependent on collecting and analyzing data in a consistent way over time.
The better October flash PMI and September data paint a consistent picture of a likely further pickup in economic activity on the back of more accommodative monetary conditions, increasing infrastructure investment, recovering property market activity in second and third tier level cities and improving external demand, mainly in Asia and emerging markets.
Companies should limit their use and disclosure of personal data to those purposes that are consistent with both the relationship that they have with consumers and the context in which consumers originally disclosed the data, unless required by law to do otherwise.
These estimates are broadly consistent with the direct recipient reporting data available for 2010:Q1.
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Our sample is small, but the message was consistent and we treat these new data points as a yellow flag.
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While the credit market turmoil remains severe, we think the economic data is still generally consistent with our August forecast of a sharp but relatively short slowdown related to the breakdown of the securitization process.
Users can interact with the data through Excel or a language like R, but all the data and the calculations are consistent, he said.
The data also shows closings have remained consistent at about 5 percent per year for equity funds and 3 percent per year for fixed income funds.
So these new data from Burrill are entirely all consistent with pharma corporate VC playing an important role in the ecosystem, and that they seem to get involved in good companies that possess better than average probabilities of success.
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All of this contradicting data, and much more, is instead consistent with the more grim reality that the economy is sliding back into renewed, double dip, recession.
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McFadden says that eventually, when SOCIALSPREADS starts to see more clear trends develop with increasing amount of data generated by users and the site begins to recognize consistent winners and losers, he will charge money in a premium package for that information of consistent winners, losers, and geographical information, but the basic lines will continue to be free.
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Organizations should always use a consistent cloud opportunity identification process to reduce the risk of project failure by leveraging data from successful cloud implementations.
As so often with data, it is the simple business of counting things and keeping consistent, accurate records that turns out to be where the glitches occur.
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