A growing body of evidence indicates that human analysts are unable to identify microscopic natural objects such as pollen grains with 100% accuracy (e.g., Ginsburg, 1997; Culverhouse et al., 2003, 2014; Culverhouse, 2007; Mander et al., 2013).
The QAS require regular inspection audits by accrediting bodies, continuing education of laboratory staff, semiannual proficiency tests of analysts, performance validation of methods, use of traceable measurement standards, and technical review of results.
For this exercise, in order to avoid analysts who are one-hit wonders, we limited our universe to those who StarMine deems a top analyst for the body of their work in 2005.
A number of analysts downgraded the stock.
Analysts is the number of analysts following a firm.
COVERAGE is analyst coverage, defined as the log of the number of analysts following the firm.
*Average of analysts polled by Zacks Investment Research.
Both groups of analysts have a point.
Not so, say a number of analysts.
The body of the multipollutant diffusive sampler is similar to the Analyst [27].
