"It just shows how hard comparisons can be for the man on the street – there are so many ifs and buts".
"We are not looking at hard comparisons, we are not like the private and public sector, we are here because we feel work is essential, that we can do it better; we should be championing our difference and not having other people's concepts imposed on us".
But fees based on late payments and overdrafts are less salient, even to highly educated, well-informed customers, for three reasons: First, the variety of fees paid under different circumstances makes it hard to comparison shop.
Criterion 5 was determined with the following considerations: (a) most studies reported uncorrected p values; (b) some studies reported corrected p values with a variety of different correction schemes, making it hard for comparison; (c) p value thresholds were determined not based on statistical significance but to include a reasonable number of top hits from each paper.
Rightmove's director, Miles Shipside, said:"London prices traditionally pick up earlier than the rest of the country, and while it appears to be slowly dragging other regions along in its wake, the difference is still very marked, particularly when the percentage increases are turned into hard cash comparisons.
All of the dancers came and went, trading places as aggressors and victims, in a frenzy of threat and noise, though some purposely landed lightly, their silence softening the blows around them, or perhaps only making them seem that much harder by comparison.
"We need to be unforgiving," says Miami's Kirtman, and "make hard-nosed comparisons" of models' predictive performance.
An 'edit path' of one or more transfer events can be represented with a series of subtree prune and regraft (SPR) operations, but finding the optimal such set of operations is NP-hard for comparisons between rooted trees, and may be so for unrooted trees as well.
Though Smith never sounds like Walt Whitman, his goals make the comparison hard to avoid.
