In fact, fitting any simple curve to the data does no better than the straight line.
It takes time for the learning curve to set in and for advances to turn into routine practices.
Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
Meanwhile, solar is posting these sorts of enormous gains every month as it climbs the exponential curve to mass adoption.
Roeder's work revises predictions of lightning deaths by fitting a statistical curve to the historic data instead of averaging over time.
Some intermediate funds extend maturities well past the intermediate part of the yield curve to time the market or boost returns, adding market risk.
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Because agencies are strictly prohibited from using a curve to distribute the highest ratings, the best are being furloughed at the same rate as the burn-outs.
There simply is no learning curve to get started, and learning the subtleties of the game is a joyful experience for everyone but the game's digital quarterbacks.
And those who are a part of the show are determined to stay on top of the technology curve to keep the conversations fluid between online and television.
From a low of 5 million barrels per day in 2008 output has shot up in a hyperbolic curve to 7 million bpd as of last week.
Pegging the federal funds rate close to zero for another three years and twisting the yield curve to lower longer-term rates will continue to misprice credit, penalize saving, and encourage risk.
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"I had to return this product because it is only for bananas that curve to the right and I can only find bananas that curve to the left, " a one-star reviewer complained.
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If you consider that every possible transaction in the economy is arbitraged against the Treasury yield curve, it is clear that paying banks above the Treasury yield curve to hold reserves will depress both total demand and bank lending.
Tim Probert, president of global business lines, says that horizontal drilling, a process in which a well is drilled down vertically and then angled around a curve to reach reservoirs from a horizontal angle that increases the well's exposure, is now 55% of Halliburton's total activity.
Her spine begins to curve due to the weight of the baby and her colon moves up into her rib cage.
Viacom studio Paramount Pictures likely wants to make sure it cashes in on Bieber before the high-flying star begins to curve back to Earth.
The gray metal "seats" ran along the sides of a curved plane that forced you to curve your back to sit.
The pleasing, textured backplate ends abruptly on the edges instead of continuing to curve gently up to the front face, forming hard lines that dig into your palms.
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If Boeing wants to hit its profitability target, and begin to make low single-digit margins by 2015, it will have to double its learning curve compared to production on the 777.
They want to be at the top of the curve, to continue to innovate and be the pioneers in this new and changing business environment.
The success of these efforts will depend on our ability to understand where we are on the Sigmoid Curve and to determine the ideal point of transformation.
There is an optimal tax level to maximise tax income, the same type of curve applies to government and economic strength.
European contagion and municipal credit concerns have sparked a flight to quality in the treasury market pushing the 5-30-year curve out to 313bps.
"Even though his learning curve had to be very quick given his experience level coming into this he did an amazing job, " Mozeliak said.
The only real way of bending that health care cost curve is to mechanise, to turn health care into a manufacture not a service.
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It seems like a lot more people reside in the red area of the curve than to the far right of the chart, where knowledge is plentiful.
The memory of the Great Depression of the 1930s and its hideous unemployment rate was still fresh, and the Phillips curve appeared to offer a magic bullet for precisely that problem.
The Premium Network graph (buys), although more expensive than the aggregate media, show an uptick at the top of the frequency curve due to the quality of the inventory with regards to user engagement.
For example, in an ingenious argument, he shows that the chief effect of an inverted yield curve is to shift leadership from growth companies to value firms that benefit from the free availability of bank loans.
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