Definitions

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  • verb To replace or adjust weights that are attached to something.
  • verb mathematics, statistics To adjust the weighting given to a value.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ weight

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Examples

  • Commodity indexes, as well as investment funds, will reweight components this week, an annual ritual that is expected to affect prices.

    For Indexes, Shifting Rite Andrea Hotter 2011

  • After my reweight the weight was to my satisfaction but it amazing how people attempt to screw over other people.

    Movers Beware - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • These indexes generally utilize recognizable quasi-active methodologies, which might take a conventional index and reweight and rebalance it according to dividends, earnings momentum, price-to-book ratio, price-to-sales ratio and so forth.

    How To Safely Navigate ETF Waters David Fry 2010

  • These indexes generally utilize recognizable quasi-active methodologies, which might take a conventional index and reweight and rebalance it according to dividends, earnings momentum, price-to-book ratio, price-to-sales ratio and so forth.

    How To Safely Navigate ETF Waters David Fry 2010

  • Others attributed the gains to heavy buying at the start of the month, as money managers reweight allocations and deploy new funds.

    Stocks Get a September Pop 2010

  • They just call around, and don't reweight their results.

    Zogby: Dead Heat In Pennsylvania 2009

  • So we have to take Zogby's topline numbers with more than a little bit of caution, because he neither discloses his raw data nor tells us what assumptions have been employed to reweight it.

    Zogby: Dead Heat In Pennsylvania 2009

  • Because any poll based only on listed landline numbers will not have an appropriate demographic sample, the pollster must reweight the results upon the basis of the subsamples, all of which have higher individual margins of error and Zogby appears to have gotten some unusual subsample results.

    Poll: McCain Takes National Lead; Even Besting Obama On The Economy 2009

  • If you simply reweight their own data by last week's 43D 37R, you'll see that there has been very little change.

    New Polls Show Tight Race In Key Swing States 2009

  • If you simply reweight their own data by last week's 43D 37R, you'll see that there has been very little change.

    New Polls Show Tight Race In Key Swing States 2009

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