Sentence examples for acceptable proportions from inspiring English sources

However, as argued Buchanan (1991, 132), Sunstein fails even to consider the possibility that a constitution could so hedge the right to secede as to reduce the threat of exit by minorities to acceptable proportions.

"The amendment to the Law of Return, which was meant to deal with a few exceptional cases, turned with time into an automatic entry ticket into Israel for non-Jews in numbers beyond acceptable proportion," Mr. Gordon said in October 1994.

The item analysis on the MQs also showed that 74% of the MQs were acceptable with respect to their discrimination indices, while the acceptable proportion for the HQs was a bit higher (80%).

Overall, an acceptable proportion of valid results was obtained.

We chose 10% as an acceptable proportion of false positive results (q-value = 0.10).

We again choose 10% as an acceptable proportion of false positive results.

The value of the algorithm depends upon retention of an acceptable proportion of coughs from patient records.

Further, the acceptable proportion of children with problems that were not predicted is disputable, making it difficult to recommend cut off points of the scores in clinical practice.

A PPV of 80% with 95% confidence interval and a lower bound of 70% is defined as a minimal acceptable proportion.

With minimum acceptable proportion of response (P0) of 0.45, desired proportion of response (P1) of 0.65, α error 0.10, β error 0.10, 39 patients assessable for response were needed.

Strengths of the present study include the trial design, with central randomization, concealment of group allocation, baseline comparability of groups and an acceptable proportion (>0.8) of those randomized providing primary outcome data.