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  2. Percentage-of-completion method - Wikipedia

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    The percentage of completion method is used when: Collections are assured; The accounting system can: Estimate profitability; Measure progress toward completion. Losses are recognized in the year when they are discovered, the same way as for the completed contract method. The balance sheet presentation is the same as in the completed contract ...

  3. Response rate (survey) - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service statistician explains response rate data at a 2017 briefing to clarify the context of crop production data. In survey research, response rate, also known as completion rate or return rate, is the number of people who answered the survey divided by the number of people in the sample.

  4. Miller twist rule - Wikipedia

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    Miller twist rule is a mathematical formula derived by American physical chemist and historian of science Donald G. Miller (1927-2012) to determine the rate of twist to apply to a given bullet to provide optimum stability using a rifled barrel. [1]

  5. Help:Displaying a formula - Wikipedia

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    MediaWiki stores rendered formulas in a cache so that the images of those formulas do not need to be created each time the page is opened by a user. To force the rerendering of all formulas of a page, you must open it with the getter variables action=purge&mathpurge=true. Imagine for example there is a wrong rendered formula in the article ...

  6. Phrase completions - Wikipedia

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    Phrase completion scales are a type of psychometric scale used in questionnaires. Developed in response to the problems associated with Likert scales , phrase completions are concise, unidimensional measures that tap ordinal level data in a manner that approximates interval level data.

  7. Compound annual growth rate - Wikipedia

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    Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a business, economics and investing term representing the mean annualized growth rate for compounding values over a given time period. [1] [2] CAGR smoothes the effect of volatility of periodic values that can render arithmetic means less meaningful. It is particularly useful to compare growth rates of ...

  8. Failure rate - Wikipedia

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    A concept closely-related but different [2] to instantaneous failure rate () is the hazard rate (or hazard function), (). In the many-system case, this is defined as the proportional failure rate of the systems still functioning at time t {\displaystyle t} (as opposed to f ( t ) {\displaystyle f(t)} , which is the expressed as a proportion of ...

  9. Word error rate - Wikipedia

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    For text dictation it is generally agreed that performance accuracy at a rate below 95% is not acceptable, but this again may be syntax and/or domain specific, e.g. whether there is time pressure on users to complete the task, whether there are alternative methods of completion, and so on.