The phrase "a weak test" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a test that lacks rigor, reliability, or effectiveness in measuring what it is intended to measure.
Example: "The results of the study were inconclusive, largely due to the fact that they were based on a weak test that failed to account for key variables."
Alternatives: "an ineffective test" or "a flawed test".
This is a weak test of trade diversion.In 1996 the WTO set up a committee to examine regional trade agreements.
Only the quality analysis of character compatibility can be judged scientific and a weak test at that compared to character congruence.
This underlines that evaluation based on the rank/ z-score of the native is a weak test of scoring function performance.
Rather than simply relying on a weak test of significance, our closer inspection of the data indicated that the majority of the low-dose subjects were responders.
Yet, this was a weak test as TAA codons have only a marginally lower chance of being lost than TAG or TGA codons (two of nine mutations are silent rather than one of nine).
The underlying hypothesis is that a weak test dose may have a low probability of revealing a potential carcinogen, whereas a strong dose may have a high probability of producing false-positive results.
Where were Bonds and Sheffield and the others when it took management and labor about 20 minutes to agree on a weak testing plan that was designed to disappear, and would have if enough players -- 5 to 7percentt of the tests were positive -- weren't so arrogant or ignorant that they couldn't pass a test they knew was coming?
The distance "d" of 0.1 simulate a stronger test while and d = 0.05 a weaker test.
Again, we observed no effect of blocking one pathway on the kinetics of the other, but this is a weaker test, since it includes only a subset of cells that might not be typical.
The same rater rated the K-SADS-PL and the SSI, which is a weaker test of concurrent validity than correlating measures rated by separate raters.
If nurses had interpreted the appearance of a weak, faint test line as positive, this could have resulted in reduced test specificity.
