To see whether the biotech software could really work on Wall Street, Paul tried it on a historical model of gas prices.

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Include historical metrics in the model to compare them with your projections.

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Using his proprietary model and database of historical trading situations, Way calculates probabilities of future price movements for individual securities.

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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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They use a forecasting model that relies, in particular, on the close historical relationship between company profits and two variables, total corporate investment in equipment and the commodity-price index published by The Economist.

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His career falls into some fairly neat art-historical patterns, and the exhibition is, in this respect, a model of clarity.

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With our tools they can model it real-time with current events and also analyze historical events that have happened in an area before.

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Having built their model, the researchers were pleased to find that it fitted the historical data well.

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One, featuring a sepia-toned, faux historical photo of a young Henry Ford in a workshop with an Apple, compared the product to the Model T for its ease of use.

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Mr. Jbil depicted France as the model of political secularism, and described the ways in which Islamist forces are seeking to undermine this historical and integral feature of modern French society.

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