Portfolio selection may be conducted through quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, or some combination thereof.
Analysts who use quantitative analysis (aka computer modeling) tend to perform better over time.
Its extensive knowledge about all things VC plus its quantitative analysis made this project possible.
Realize that some risk factors will not be apparent when basic quantitative analysis is performed.
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This view is shared by the proprietary quantitative analysis model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor.
Think twice, though, about specializing in fields that require a close alternation of experiment and quantitative analysis.
Michael Fishman, the Yankees' director of quantitative analysis, has become a key advisor to general manager Brian Cashman.
"Everything today has a computer in it, " says Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com, an online compensation comparison tool.
As a blogger best known for theory work, I try to improve player knowledge through quantitative analysis and growth through my articles.
The idea behind Long-Term Capital Management was that pricing anomalies in the market could be picked up with the help of sophisticated quantitative analysis.
The Wall Street Journal asked Ben Alamar, the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, to build a statistical model of the changes.
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According to the statistical model by the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports, the Yankees are 94% likely to make the playoffs and the Red Sox are 80%.
The GOP will have every opportunity to win elections down the line unless it continues to wage war on basic and apolitical concepts like quantitative analysis and polling.
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This assessment must blend quantitative analysis with intuitive awareness.
Dr. Lisa Dierker, a professor of psychology at the university and chair of the Quantitative Analysis Center, has designed a course in which students can choose projects on topics that interest them.
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There is another factor at play here, though, and it is no less important: The Yankees merge traditional scouting with quantitative analysis at the pro level as well as any team in baseball.
"Starting salaries do not tell you a whole lot, but there is a real divergence in dollar terms as you go over the course of a career, " says Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com.
If Goldberg affirmatively and unambiguously stated that people are somehow unique and immune to quantitative analysis he would immediately open himself up to criticism from economists, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists and others who analyze human behavior.
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The key difference is that clinical trials are much more rigorous, and as much as possible rely on objective, quantitative analysis to measure improvement, as opposed to field trials, which are more reliant on patients' subjective reactions.
This optional monthly payment program, called Fidelity Smart Payment Program, uses quantitative analysis to determine a schedule of annual target payment rates, with a goal of not running out of money before the target date is achieved.
Nevertheless, Michael Lewis, the author of the 2003 book Moneyball, the story of how the penny-pinching Oakland A's used quantitative analysis to win at baseball, said he couldn't see the harm in additional analytics in youth and scholastic sports.
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Media specialists are ideally suited to an age when working out how to reach your audience is as important as working out how best to express your message, because they are comfortable working across a range of media and are used to quantitative analysis.
To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.
Along with the quantitative and valuation analysis, they also look at: key success factors, key risk factors, the competitive landscape, insiders, institutional holdings, what type of institutions are holding the stock, and catalysts that might drive the stock up (or down).
The reason behind the signal was a complex set of quantitative criteria mixed with our analysis that the market participants were misinterpreting supply chain data.
So did MPI, a quantitative-research firm, after an analysis in 2006 failed to find a legitimate strategy that matched his returns though they were closely correlated with those of Bayou, a fraudulent hedge fund that had collapsed a year earlier.
Rather than the interaction pattern analysis which is essentially a counting or quantitative problem, we are now looking for the deeper meaning, a qualitative problem.
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KLD, whose database contains an analysis of 3, 000 companies, combines quantitative and subjective measures of citizenship.
Valuation analysis was performed using The Applied Finance Group's quantitative (AFG)-valuation model.
We believe -- and this is our hope and position -- we believe that the treaty can be viable and can operate only provided there is no qualitative or quantitative (inaudible) in place in the capabilities, something that could, in the final analysis, jeopardize the strategic offensive weapons on the Russian side.
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