Concordance matrices for the four raters were then consolidated into a single 110 × 110 agreement matrix, which for each item pairing noted the proportion of raters that had grouped those two items together (providing a ratio between 0.0 – never, and 1.0 – always).
The pair notes that a less volatile portfolio may earn more over time than one with higher volatility and identical average returns.
At the second-floor booth of Vintage Interiors II, a store in Alexandria, Va., a caption by two 1740s Meissen plates ($27,500 for the pair) notes that they belonged to Saxon royals and have a pattern often mislabeled as a crouching lion but "in reality a tiger prowling amongst prunus".
The final similarity between two care episodes is this sum of their paired notes similarities, multiplied by two, and divided by the total number of notes in the two care episodes (Equation 1).
No one can predict the future with any regularity, the pair note, so why would you think that active managers can beat their respective indexes over time?
Calling for legislation that would put workers on the boards of all but the smallest companies, the pair note: "What matters most for reducing inequality is the strength of progressive politics as a countervailing voice in society.
Ari Mir, chief executive of Pocket Change, a start-up based in San Francisco, went through this when he first procured a pair, noting that when he first tried them on he was smitten.
We found that when presented only with object pairs noted to be from the same category, young children (6 ⩽ YO ⩽ 9.5) learned the novel categories just as well as older children (10 ⩽ YO ⩽ 14) and adults.
But the pair note that the small study should be broadened to a bigger one that measures smoke exposure levels and also looks at newborns whose mother's smoked during pregnancy.
