Sentence examples for a prior range from inspiring English sources

Tower, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., also raised its second-quarter revenue forecast to $710 million to $725 million from a prior range of $695 million to $715 million.

Looking ahead, J&J boosted its full-year 2009 forecast to $4.54 to $4.59 per share, up from a prior range of $4.45 to $4.55 per share.

Despite the profit and revenue drop, as well as the combined ratio uptick, Travelers raised its full-year forecast to a range of $4.80 to $5.05 per share, up from a prior range of $4.55 to $4.95 per share.

The company, which was spun off from parent General Electric in 2003, said it now sees 2005 operating earnings of $2.35 to $2.45 per share, up from a prior range of $2.30 to $2.40 per share.

However, Ford is now forecasting full year industry volume sales of 13 million units in the US, compared to a prior range of 13 million to 13.5 million units, and industry volume of 15.2 million units in the 19 European markets it tracks, compared to a prior outlook for 14.8 million to 15.3 million units.

The company cut its forecast for full-year revenue to a range of $17.85 billion to $17.95 billion, from a prior range in July of $18 billion to $18.3 billion.

For the categorical covariates (included in the model as binary dummy variables), the random variables were assumed to have a Bernoulli distribution with a uniform prior ranging from 0 to 1, while missing continuous data were assumed to have a normal distribution with non-informative priors for both the mean and precision.

Given each model, we used noninformative normal priors for all model parameters except for the between-study standard deviation, for which we used an noninformative uniform prior (range 0 10).

Underlining the difficulty of predicting future sales and earnings performance in the current economic environment, Airgas now expects fourth-quarter earnings in the range of 64 cents to 67 cents a share, down from its prior range of 73 cents to 76 cents a share.

The root node age was modeled with a uniform prior ranging between 1630 and 1160 Ma.

For each fossil we applied an exponential prior, the parameters of which are given in Table 2. Finally, the stem node of palms was constrained by a uniform prior ranging from 110 to 120 Ma.