Sentence examples for historical formula from inspiring English sources

The next chart compares the actual vote that each player received against that projected by the historical formula.

That would translate into about a 60 percent chance of his winning the popular vote given the historical error in the formula when fit to past elections.

Currently, all airlines at La Guardia are charged landing fees based on an arcane formula: the historical cost of providing airport facilities and infrastructure divided by the weight of the aircraft.

Makuch and Simon gave a sample size calculation formula for historical control (HC) studies that assumed that the observed response rate in the control group is the true response rate.

To evaluate body composition and fasting insulin level in preterm infants receiving preterm formulas (higher protein plus docosahexaenoic acid) for longer periods compared with a recent historical cohort receiving these formulas for shorter periods.

Some venture capitalists say that the idea of using formulas or historical data from past deals to predict how other start-ups will do in the future has been tried many times in vain.

The formulae used historical patterns in the characteristics of candidates whose applications were traditionally rejected to filter out new candidates whose profiles matched those of the least successful applicants.

But it made no changes to the list of jurisdictions covered by Section 5, relying instead on a formula based on historical practices and voting data from elections held decades ago.

Officials who think their schools are suffering may be comparing amounts with years past, in which they may have received more than their fair share, Ms. McManus indicated, saying the department had created a uniform allocation formula to correct historical imbalances.

Ms. Ephron's generation, whose rate of breast-feeding their babies was a historical low, was manipulated by formula manufacturers to ignore breast-feeding, at the peril of their pocketbooks and a laundry list of scientifically documented benefits for mother and baby.

They also noted that the existing human data were "limited by small samples sizes, conflicting results, and historical studies that used soy infant formula of different composition than the formula being sold currently" (Rozman et al. 2006).