The phrase "a decent model of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a representation or example that is satisfactory or acceptable in quality or performance.
Example: "The research provided a decent model of consumer behavior, helping us understand purchasing patterns."
Alternatives: "a reasonable representation of" or "an adequate example of".
The IMF needs to make decent models of the economy before it can disburse funds.
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.
Typically, the Dick Francis hero is a modest, decent fellow, a model of British valor and integrity, who restores order by asserting his superior moral values — and by going mano a mano with a ruthless villain who subjects him to unspeakable torture.
It shows you have a decent business model.
The country has role models: a decent crop of high-ranking women politicians, civil servants, judges and journalists.Time is on their sideAs India shifts from being a poor, mostly rural place to an urban, wealthier and modern one, more women will study, take paid jobs and decide for themselves whom to marry or divorce and where to live.
Conceptual (9 papers) and empirical studies (18 papers) exhibit a stronger tendency to include multiple actors of analysis compared to formal models (14 papers), which put a narrower focus to build the model on a decent scale of complexity by focusing on single actors (18 papers on manufacturers, 5 papers on carriers, 2 papers on retailers).
The estimation procedure for the convolution model produces a decent estimate of the mean, but is not accurate for the rate parameter.
In summary, the proposed simple 2D model provides a decent approximation of the OSN-to-PN transformation and corroborates the notion that PNs mainly encode OSN spike rate and its rate of change in a nonlinear fashion.
"They recruited volunteers but made sure that they had a decent amount of diversity so models don't fail on a certain type of person".
