Sentence examples for a weak criterion from inspiring English sources

Defining employment as having a positive income in a year is a weak criterion because some individuals with a positive income may only work for a small part of the year or may be part-time unemployed.

However, with regard to the relatively large number of free parameters in a rainfall-runoff model, a single measure of performance is a weak criterion to assess and declare (or refuse) modeling success against the background of omnipresent equifinality (Beven, [2001]).

The criterion of 'requiring at least one more night of hospitalisation' may be considered by some to be a weak criterion.

However, correlation coefficient is a weak criterion for measuring dependence and can lead to many false positives in predicting TF targets [ 15].

20 Altman considered that biological plausibility is a weak criterion when deciding whether a subgroup finding is likely to be real, since, according to him, physicians seem able to find a biologically plausible explanation for any finding.

It is known that the extent of bivalent formation during meiotic prophase in polyploid plants rarely depends on chromosome homology alone, and therefore meiotic configuration may be a weak criterion on which to base genomic relationships (de Wet and Harlan, 1972; Jauhar and Joppa, 1996; Kopecký et al., 2008).

However, this is difficult to assess here, as the pattern of covariance is very complex, with many gene pairs having high zero-order correlation and known existence of circuits in the causality networks, hence our use of the correlation variability matrix, described above, as a (weaker) criterion.

Both methodological discordance of results (based on the fact that different methods differ in their ability to prevent LBA), and the lack of morphological support for a molecular clade (an admittedly weak criterion) have been taken as possible indications of LBA in the literature [ 47].

It was hypothesised that the MASQ would show marginal to weak criterion validity in the present sample.

When only the weak criterion is satisfied, the population may expand hundreds of generations before the deleterious load is expected to halt growth (Bull and Wilke 2008).

To evaluate which model is the most promising one we consider the following three criteria: 1. Fit of the model to the data 2. Number of model parameters 3. Computational time for simulation (computational complexity, weak criterion) Each reversible deterministic model can be fitted to the data with a similar deviation from the measurements.