#measures

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#excessive #fats #food #goodness #i

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #feedback #growth #measures #multiple

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#become #component #conservation #depleted #fisheries

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#exact #extent #measures #method #object

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. ↗

— Tom McCall

#i #measures #popular #realize #required

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#involved #measure #measures #opportunity #risk

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#european #extraordinary #facts #greece #help