The phrase "a decent model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a model that is satisfactory or acceptable in quality or performance.
Example: "The researchers presented a decent model for predicting climate change impacts, which was well-received by the scientific community."
Alternatives: "a satisfactory model" or "an acceptable model".
I'd looked after my phone and paid a daft amount for a decent model, so for mine to break wasn't fair!
A decent model will do better than you at recognizing how demographic and other variables predict movie attendance, but the place where the data in the model stops is an opportunity for humans to add something.
For the foreseeable future no one else will know how to do these things nearly as well as housing associations, and I'd say they deserve our measured support – as a decent model of public-private partnership, in dogged pursuit of a social purpose.
Mr Compton says the resell value is good for Vespas too: "If you buy one for £2,000, chances are you'll sell it for £1,400 a couple of years later because they hold their value well". There are lots for sale second hand, so it's possible to pick up a decent model for around £1,000.
GDPR as written is a decent model for privacy regulation but the implementation so far has been horrendous.
However, we still need a decent model of spatial correlations of wireless communication channels which are crucial for the performance of routing protocols.
They have a exceedingly decent model if they knew what to do with it.
There is the example from CASP4, where a decent scoring model, with 'reasonable' GDT and AL0 values, was deemed 'an impossible structure' by the CASP4 assessors because it contained a trefoil knot (Tramontano et al., 2001).
What one needs is to run a decent numerical model of the atmosphere 1000s of times and let the model figure out what causes what.
However, there will be many other cases where using a decent predictive model to improve decision quality is good enough.
Still without a decent permissions model, unless you're running 4.3 - which, according to Google's own statistics, is just 4.2% of those whose devices accessed Google Play in the last week of November.
