It is a relative measure people are deemed poor if they are living in households with under half the average national income.
Rather than craft a test with a dictated and absolute minimum score, creating a relative measure that allows institutions to compete against each other on a level playing field for funds would have been much smarter and aligned to market realities.
When you measure relative strength, you want to measure it from the most recent lows.
This absurd result occurs since a relative poverty measure is used, rather than an absolute measure (although these measures are not without their own problems).
Finally, O'Shaughnessy took all of the stocks that passed the previous three criteria and ranked them according to relative strength, which is the measure of how a stock has performed relative to all other stocks in the market over the past 12 months.
In water the temperature changes are a good measure of relative enthalpy changes.
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They are, however, quick and easy ways for each of us to measure the relative value of the things we buy.
All the historical records of sea level measure only relative sea level.
One way to measure the relative level of customer dis-satisfaction is to compare the rate at which the two firms freeze accounts.
The above chart is drawing on the insights of that study and attempting to measure the relative sensibleness of different possibly monetary unions.
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The final criterion of this approach is relative strength, the measure of how a stock has performed compared to all other stocks over the past year.
The idea of relative poverty as a measure of social exclusion, however, had taken hold - not just in Britain but also at the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the OECD.
Each star earns a perfect 100 E-Score which is a composite measure that weighs relative marketing effectiveness of each celebrity.
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By any material measure, and relative to the aspirations of most people, she was one of the most privileged human beings on the planet.
While goals are not necessary for activity or even productivity, they provide us with a relative standard against which to measure the effectiveness of our efforts, aiding us in the elusive quest for fulfillment.
So, when you think of relative evaluations, any way you measure them, stocks are cheap.
IR Jerry Hausman (Letters, November 6th) castigates the British government for using relative income as a preferred poverty measure.
On the OECD's calculations of purchasing-power parity (a measure that adjusts for relative prices), the franc is 42% overvalued against the euro and 44% against the dollar.
Attribute some of the dissatisfaction to what economist Milton Friedman dubbed "Permanent Income Theory, " which assumes that people measure where they are relative to where they expected to be a few years ago.
Notwithstanding my preference for financial measures, relative TSR can be a reasonable default measure.
Yes it is broke, but not one measure that has ever surfaced relative to reform will ever fix the root cause.
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It is hard to gauge the pain of relative poverty because no one knows how to measure happiness.
Perhaps this is really why relative poverty is New Labour's favourite measure, putting the health and welfare of its citizens before the interests of Bill Gates and his millionaire co-workers should they decide to emigrate if Janet Reno gets her way.
As with other university programmes, the relative usefulness of an MBA programme is hard to measure.
The football statistical outlet Football Outsiders rates Green-Ellis among the top backs in the league by one statistic it uses to measure how well backs perform on each play relative to the down and distance.
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The broadest measure of income provides the most meaningful gauge of the relative impact of taxes on households.
By the standard measure of purchasing-power parity, which reflects currencies' relative buying power, all of South-East Asia's currencies are now undervalued.
Thanks to a massive stock of gold around the world relative to small annual new discoveries (flow), gold is the single best measure of money we have.
We define overbought territory using the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which is a technical analysis indicator used to measure momentum on a scale of zero to 100.
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