Our purpose here is to present an approach to evaluating rival methods which can help provide guidance to the investigator.
After "shooting Copland" amid the anguished cries of its engineers, she assembled a team to evaluate rival operating systems.
The major challenges that need to be addressed are: (1) defining and dating the unplanned event in a way that is not contaminated by knowledge of changes in outcome indicators; (2) selecting an appropriate outcome indicator series to model the impact of the event; (3) statistically modeling the impact of the event; and (4) evaluating rival explanations of the changes that followed the event.
"They need a lot of pieces," said an Eastern Conference scout, who did not want to be named while evaluating a rival team.
For example, if I have to cast my vote for either George "I go with my gut" Bush or John "I deliberate until the cows come home" Kerry, how should I evaluate their rival cognitive styles?
Recent reports had Cathay, along with a number of Taiwan rivals, evaluating an acquisition of American International Group 's Taiwanese life insurance unit, which would likely cost more than $2 billion.
Lehman Brothers, for instance, developed processes that help analysts evaluate research rigorously, deliver reports ahead of rivals, and keep up-to-date on their performance.
The admonishment from S.& P. was not as blunt as a warning delivered less than a week ago by Moody's Investors Service, S.& P.'s chief rival in evaluating the creditworthiness of countries and corporations.
One sign that some REITs are thinking the way I am comes from news that Simon Property (SPG, 75) hired a consultant to help it evaluate properties in bankrupt rival General Growth's portfolio.
The implants sell because of a loophole -- but the F.D.A. decided they can only continue selling if manufacturers prove they truly are safe, and asked its scientific advisers to evaluate products sold by the Mentor Corporation of California and two rivals this week.
Enrichment of GO terms was evaluated using the hypergeometric test, following the recommendations of Rivals and colleagues [20] and Gentleman and colleagues [21].
