This year, there were 16 airlines that made the cut and AirTran, a low-cost carrier that was once known as ValuJet ranked first.Mr Headley uses "weighted averages and monthly performance data in the areas of on-time arrivals, involuntary denied boardings, mishandled baggage, and a combination of 12 customer complaint categories" to compile his rankings, according to the study's website.
Descriptive statistics are weighted averages.
I do agree that population (or GDP) weighted averages are generally superior to simple arithmetic averages.
Each country's score is a weighted average of its performance on nine indicators.Audio and Video content on Economist.com requires a browser that can handle iFrames.To no one's surprise, Nordic countries come out well on educational attainment and labour-force participation.
Each country's score is a weighted average of its performance on nine indicators.Audio and Video content on Economist.com requires a browser that can handle iFrames.This year it is Finland that comes out best, overtaking Sweden and knocking Norway off the top spot.
The objective criteria for optimization is considered to be a weighted average of the performance measures such as build time, part quality and the material used in the hollowed model.
In short, the VBP score for 2013 is based on a weighted average of either performance or improvement for 12 clinical process of care (CPC) measures and 8 patient satisfaction measures from HCAHPS survey.
Note: The table presents employment-weighted averages.
To do this, you could use known statistical methods to combine these countries' economic records, so that the weighted average record of economic performance in the pool tracked with Israel's record over, say, a generation.
We use the Weighted Average Method (WAM) [9] performance modeling technique, which has been shown to be more accurate than other traditional performance modeling techniques in predicting SLO violations under burstiness.
