averagings


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averagings

(ˈævərədʒɪŋz)
pl n
average values
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Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire how the repairing and refurnishing of the vessel was coming on, how additions to the passenger list were averaging, how many people the committee were decreeing not "select" every day and banishing in sorrow and tribulation.
The deaths were averaging four a day, and there were more new cases than recoveries.
They are a fine race of men averaging six feet in height, lithe and active, with hawks' eyes and Roman noses.
I never saw a better, averaging as it did between forty and fifty pounds a tusk.
The macroscopic equations result from a process of averaging out, and may be different in different cases.
We have, at the present moment, one hundred and seventy families, Miss Summerson, averaging five persons in each, either gone or going to the left bank of the Niger."
Within a month from the taking of the first stickleback, Benjy had carried off our hero to the canal, in defiance of Charity; and between them, after a whole afternoon's popjoying, they had caught three or four small, coarse fish and a perch, averaging perhaps two and a half ounces each, which Tom bore home in rapture to his mother as a precious gift, and which she received like a true mother with equal rapture, instructing the cook nevertheless, in a private interview, not to prepare the same for the Squire's dinner.
As she roars her song, in a voice of which it is enough to say that it leaves no portion of the room vacant, the three musicians follow her, laboriously and note by note, but averaging one note behind; thus they toil through stanza after stanza of a lovesick swain's lamentation: --
This paper presents empirical evidence on the efficacy of forecast averaging using the ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data) real-time database.
This paper provides evidence on the ability of various forms of forecast averaging to improve the real-time forecast accuracy of monthly bivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) forecasts of headline and core consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation, growth in industrial production (IP), and the unemployment rate.
In accordance with the literature, our results indicate that model averaging can--but does not always--improve forecast accuracy relative to the more-standard BIC-based approach to model selection.
In some, though not all, instances our decomposition meshes well with the permutations of types of models and types of averaging procedures that produce the most accurate forecasts.