Perhaps the most intriguing idea discussed at demo day was advanced by Clinicast, an analytics company that aspires to develop an industry-standard health risk score, analogous to the FICO credit score.
The Twins' 0.525 winning percentage fell within that standard range, translating to a score of less than one standard deviation above the 0.500 mean.
Finally, data mining is helping banks create risk profiles for those who might lack a credit score or other standard qualifications, opening the door to financial services for them.
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Poon plans to recruit 100 African-Americans who are very unlikely to have heart attacks according to a standard survey called the Framingham risk score.
The 2.20 score indicates more than two standard deviations above the mean, meaning the Niners were more than twice as good as a typical NFL team that year.
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It shows the highest coefficient, the highest odds ratio, the highest z-score and one of the lowest standard errors.
Finally, I provide a score along with these reviews, using standard U.S. academic letter grading.
Counting up wins in a season relative to the competition (how balanced was the league in each season?) yielded us a G-Score, as in "greatness, " a standard deviation measurement that shows the degree to which a team stood out among the field in a given year.
Three score and 12 years earlier, George Washington set the standard for a shortened second inaugural speech.
Neither side could add to their score in the final quarter of a disappointing game of mediocre standard.
Their standard card charges a 6.5% APR to members with a credit score of 700 or above, and their premium offering has an astoundingly low 3.25% APR for those with a credit score above 740.
The Calculation: To quantify the data, I measured each of those four statistics (YTD return, number of up days, standard deviation, and maximum drawdown) against all other stocks and gave them a score from zero to 100.
To equalize the measurement of team performance across eras, we've created the G-score (as in "greatness"), basically a zippy name for what statistical connoisseurs call standard deviation.
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