Testing assumptions and selecting the appropriate analysis
Selecting and Documenting Mortality Assumptions for Pensions
... Q2. What factors need not be considered? A2. Many factors affect mortality, some of which are considered when performing actuarial calculations for pension plans and some of which are not. For individual insurance ...
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Selecting Appropriate ETFs for Your Portfolio
... termination date. In the final months of each Fund's operation, its portfolio will transition to cash and cash-like instruments. As a result, its yield will tend to move toward prevailing money market rates, and may be ...
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A CHOICE DILEMMA IN SELECTING AN APPROPRIATE RESEARCH DESIGN
... identify appropriate instruments to use in the follow-up quantitative phase, or to specify variables that need to go into a follow-up quantitative ...the appropriate qualitative findings to use and the ...
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A Mechanism for Selecting Appropriate Data Mining Techniques
... an appropriate data mining technique to use is one of the important steps when undertaking a data mining ...without testing numbers of techniques. Testing different techniques shows that, there is a ...
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Selecting Automated Testing Tools
... software testing tool to decide that the test has failed and it should be ...automated testing tool must be able to handle these situations in the appropriate ...
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Selecting an appropriate research sample for a phenomenographic study of values
... advocated selecting the sample most likely to give variation, and suggested that she would if necessary construct a sample representative of the population in order to ensure that her data included a full range of ...
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Selecting the Appropriate Decision Alternatives using SM and AHP
... 3. MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple- criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operation's research that explicitly considers multiple criteria in ...
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Selecting the appropriate exercises and. loads for speed-strength development.
... Changing strength levels may also warrant consideration as to which loads/exercises are most appropriate for developing speed-strength. Conclusions A rationale has been provided for the definition of ...
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Selecting Appropriate Toys for Young Children: The Pediatrician’s Role
... Government regulations, improved safety stan- dards for the manufacture and use of toys, and prod- uct testing have made most toys safe when used appropriately for recommended ages and stages of development. Just ...
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Are we selecting appropriate metrics to assess human impacts on biodiversity?
... Sukhdev, Wittmer & Miller 2014). These events are particularly important in the tropics, which hold both the highest levels of biodiversity and the highest rates of land-use change (Hansen et al. 2013). Despite recent ...
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ERISA Procedural Prudence: The Appropriate Standard for Selecting an Annuity Provider
... 8. Manner of Presentation Fiduciaries must review the manner in which the documentation is presented. Merely assembling tables of facts and figures without an accompanying analysis leaves the selection open to ...
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Selecting the Appropriate Insurance Coverage - A Key Measure to Minimize Risk
... Common allegations include bodily injury, failure to warn and conflicts of interest among sponsor companies, investigators and healthcare organizations. In addition, more creative legal theories of therapeutic misconduct ...
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TESTING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF AGE-TO-AGE FACTORS. Abstract
... especially for highly variable and slowly reporting lines, such as excess reinsurance. In fact, in the experience of myself and other actuaries who have reported informally, the constant term has often been found to be ...
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Student engagement and the threat of consumerism: testing assumptions
... Streeting and Wise (26) argue that consumerism fails to explain the complex motivations that support engagement. Although this research presents evidence that a fair minority of students do see themselves as consumers, ...
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Testing the assumptions of outpatient healthcare appointment scheduling
... these assumptions, we offer qualitative support for the ...This analysis suggests that an OA clinic will experience higher levels of patient waiting, clinic overtime, and provider idleness than will a TS ...
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Biaxial Testing: Appropriate for Mechanical Characterisation?
... The testing of materials is sometimes assumed to be a mature ...the assumptions in determining the material property value, and indeed inherent microstructure of the material ...the assumptions being ...
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The Available Lexicon: A Tool for Selecting Appropriate Vocabulary to Teach a Foreign Language
... In this work we propose a selection process of relevant lexicon based on the Fuzzy Set Theory applied to lexical availability (Ávila-Muñoz, 2016; Ávila-Muñoz and Sánchez-Sáez, 2010 and 2011). In general, this proposal ...
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Testing Assumptions about Evaluating Strategic Alliance Performance
... That researchers have not reached a consensus about strategic alliance performance measures is not unusual. Numerous areas of strategic management research have benefited from a periodic examination of measurement. ...
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Multi-Attribute Utility Theory for Selecting an Appropriate Procurement Method in the Construction Projects
... of selecting a procurement method because of their experiences in procurement management for large construction projects in the Gaza ...factor analysis based on the consensus of the ...
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Selecting an Appropriate Sanitizer or Disinfectant
... What is the difference between sanitizing and disinfecting? Sometimes these terms are used as if they mean the same thing, but they are not the same. Sanitizer is a product that reduces but does not eliminate germs on ...
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