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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This view is shared by the proprietary quantitative analysis model employed by the Forbes Growth Investor.
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 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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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.
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 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 reason behind the signal was a complex set of quantitative criteria mixed with our analysis that the market participants were misinterpreting supply chain data.
Michael Fishman, the Yankees' director of quantitative analysis, has become a key advisor to general manager Brian Cashman.
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.
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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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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Valuation analysis was performed using The Applied Finance Group's quantitative (AFG)-valuation model.
"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.
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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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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Staff reflection and analysis of test scores, however, revealed that students had reached a plateau in the development of quantitative reasoning skills.
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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.
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