A very common way is to use the "last digit" method.
With a tight caliper, there is little difference between the methods in terms of closeness of matches, although the best-first, random, and 5-to-1-digit methods are generally slightly better than the ascending and descending methods.
Five-year average return on capital: Here we use a modified version of the sum-of-the-years digits method.
Five-year average return on capital is calculated with a modified version of the sum-of-the-years digits method.
Other methods of depreciation can be used such as sum-of-the-years'-digits method, declining balance method, and units-of-production method.
An accelerated depreciation model that is not quite as aggressive as the double declining balance method is the sum-of-years' digits method.
Cell phones numbers are selected using random digit dial methods".
This database includes US Census and Centers for Disease Control population databases established from list-assisted random digit dialing methods and used previously for this, and other large-scale population-based epidemiology studies [ 23, 24].
Controls from Tolland Country were recruited through random digit dialing methods for those under age 65 years and randomly selected from Health Care Financing Administration files for those aged 65 years and over.
A representative sample of the household-dwelling population of Montreal and Montérégie regions of Québec province in Canada was drawn using the Random Digit Dialling methods between February and June 2005.
The traditional Random Digit Dialing method (list-assisted RDD using a frame of landline phone numbers) is clearly under threat.
