The declaration also explains how Northwestern calculated the figures on the Form 1099-R.
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To correctly interpret the data, one must understand how the statistics are calculated, how the biases are imparted, and the magnitude of those biases.
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Not knowing how he would support his family, he had calculated how much his life insurance policies would pay upon his death.
The project team have calculated how much energy could be generated from the action of waves.
The researchers then calculated how fast and intensely the CEOs had adapted to the rise of biotechnology.
Because millions of people were affected, any fine could add up quickly, depending on how it is calculated.
Daly is no chemist, but the tall, energetic Harvard Business School graduate knows how to make calculated gambles.
But how is it calculated - and what do the results actually mean?
Rather, he crunched numbers, once proudly telling his grandmother that he had calculated how much her cigarette habit was shortening her life.
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But Mr Borjas also calculated how a rise in the number of migrants might have encouraged the creation of jobs, which reduced the impact on wages.
Almost three-quarters of the work was done: they talked about that, and calculated how much paint was left unused and how much they would receive back on it.
When reviewing your annual statement, make sure to understand exactly how return is calculated and whether the advisor is using a valid benchmark comparison for the holdings in your portfolio.
He said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes -- federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state income tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax.
Thomson Reuters, which did the data crunching for THE, combed through 6 million journal articles published over a five-year period, and then calculated how many times those articles were cited by other scholars.
David Love, a visiting finance professor at Columbia Business School, has calculated how much annual income retirees can generate from all their assets--savings, non-financial property and promised annuity payments like pensions and Social Security.
They looked at the returns earned by investors in American shares between 1982 and 1997, and calculated how much of the differences in returns could be predicted from traditional financial indicators based on company accounts.
The World Gold Council, which is the market development organization for the gold industry, said it is in discussions with member companies on the subject, did not elaborate on the reason for the move to change how costs are calculated.
For business sports brands, I first calculated how much the branded enterprise would fetch in an arms-length transaction, and then subtracted the average enterprise value of what similar businesses the same size have been sold for, or are being valued.
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As the final estimate of the costs from hurricane Sandy will not be known for some time, a reasonable starting point is to understand how damages are calculated, Barclays Capital economists led by Michael Gapen wrote in a research note on Friday.
All they see are percentage points, but they do not know how those percentages are calculated.
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That's because the details on how minimum distributions are calculated are prescribed by regulations, not by Congress.
Fewer than 10 percent of customers would ask for copies of how the rebates were calculated, another company official said.
Last year the UK's national statistician examined how the RPI was calculated and whether it was measuring price changes accurately.
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Thomas, Warden, which sought to define how Good Time was calculated.
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And, how inflation has been calculated over the years has changed.
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The IRS said taxpayers who have questions should look for the explanation of how the refund was calculated and compare that to their 2000 tax form.
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Secondly, you need to consider how profits are being calculated.
Three-quarters of the increases in F-35 support costs reported by the Pentagon have resulted from changes in the scope of work being analyzed or changes in the methodology for how costs should be calculated, rather than rising costs in the program.
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The bottom line is that half of the entire cost now attributed to the F-35 program for lifetime operations and sustainment is the result of changes made by the government since its inception in how estimates should be calculated and what the scope of the program should be.
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