Sentence examples for a convenient approximation for from inspiring English sources
Kelly's analysis identifies a common value in the limit of an infinite tree, which serves as a convenient approximation for large finite trees.
Because it allows an objective definition of the utility threshold, the piecewise model can serve as a convenient approximation for curvilinear attribute-pressure relationships (resembling Figs. 1b-c) that continuously accelerate or decelerate (i.e., the second derivative is never equal to zero).
KFWER provides a convenient approximation for choosing α cut in the case that N is large.
In the elderly, a convenient approximation of height is arm span (Patterson 1994).
Until then the normal and independent model could be viewed as a convenient approximation of the real phenomena [ 1].
Why? Basically, because infinity is an extremely convenient approximation for which we haven't discovered convenient alternatives.
The "independent sites" assumption is admittedly a convenient approximation, a simplification that is likely valid for a large majority of potential site interactions but invalid for a small fraction of interacting sites.
In either case, a law may be valid even though it obtains only under special circumstances or as a convenient approximation.
A rubber band can't be stretched indefinitely, because although it seems smooth and continuous, that's merely a convenient approximation: it's really made of atoms, and if you stretch it too much, it snaps.
Subtypes defined by clinicopathological criteria are similar to but not identical to intrinsic subtypes and represent a convenient approximation.
As Skellam [ 8] stated as early as 1948, "in practice we could, at least in most cases, take this form of distribution as a convenient approximation".
