Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word re-weighting.

Examples

  • The CFA Institute, which counts more than 105,000 members world-wide, including 96,000 holders of the chartered financial analyst designation, based the findings on the responses of 2,726 members, re-weighting the results to reflect their geographic distribution.

    Financial Analysts Dim on 2012, Survey Shows Brendan Conway 2011

  • This alone wasn't enough to affect the first-quarter GDP data, although re-weighting in other measures may result in a strong enough revision to affect the third reading of GDP.

    U.K. Manufacturing Soars 2010

  • The ONS said the reason for the sharp revisions was a re-weighting of the index, new seasonal factors and a late return of some data.

    U.K. Manufacturing Soars 2010

  • The re-weighting of the index also meant that the first-quarter industrial production data contribution to gross domestic product was revised down 0.2 percentage point.

    U.K. Manufacturing Soars 2010

  • So the totals percentages they're reporting either reflect re-weighting or else there are typos in their table.

    Poll: Edwards, Huckabee Lead In Iowa 2009

  • Just out of curiosity, I tried taking their table and re-weighting each age group to 2004 levels, but when I did I found the total percentages didn't change much.

    Poll: Edwards, Huckabee Lead In Iowa 2009

  • We don't know if all those subgroups include significant sample sizes, but re-weighting is less likely to skew these internals.

    Zogby: Dead Heat In Pennsylvania 2009

  • "This bodes well for inflation, coupled with the much-awaited re-weighting of the Consumer Price Index basket from February 2009."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • I imagine it is effectively equivalent to just not re-weighting, but I can follow the logic clearly.

    Wilson et al 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • It involved re-weighting every response so that the sum of those responses matched the reported election results.

    OpEdNews Exclusive 2006

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.