Z score

American  

noun

1. Statistics. a measure that quantifies the distance a data point is from the mean of a data set.

2. Business. the figure derived from a credit-strength formula that gauges the likelihood of bankruptcy.

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Example Sentences

Some of the things BofA looks at include the Conference Board consumer-confidence gauge, the Conference Board’s findings on the percentage of respondents who expect stocks will climb, BofA’s sell-side indicator, which monitors recommendations made by sell-side analysts, the 10-year Z score of the number of M&A deals announced over the past six months. and the performance differential between stocks with high price-to-earnings ratios and those with low price-to-earnings ratios.

From MarketWatch

Edward Altman, creator of the Z score, a widely used method of predicting business failures, estimated that this year will easily set a record for so-called megabankruptcies — filings by companies with $1 billion or more in debt.

From Seattle Times

The studies used something called the B.M.I. z score, which statistically adjusts body mass index according to age.

From New York Times

After controlling for total energy intake, birth weight, ethnicity and other factors, a 6- to 8-ounce daily serving of 100 percent fruit juice was associated with a 0.087 unit average increase in B.M.I. z score in children 1 to 6 — equivalent to about 0.3 pounds.

From New York Times

Each bar represents a single tumour and the height of that bar represents the z score of the cytolytic activity of that tumour compared to the rest of the cohort.

From Nature