Secondly, we sought genuine outcome metrics to gauge quality, not process metrics which are often used as inexact proxies for quality, as they are frequently easier to track.
Colonel Regner declined to provide estimates of the number of insurgents killed, saying, "It's not a true reflection of the success that we've had in this battle". Commanders in Iraq are required to report estimates of the numbers of fighters their troops have killed, but this is often an inexact science.
FiveThirtyEight came up with some interesting stats, which you should take with a decent helping of salt, since analyzing why one candidate wins over another is often an inexact science.
Marketers also obsess over share of voice (SOV), but SOV is often an inexact science and means little for your business if you aren't focusing on article quality.
In order to overcome this drawback, inexact quasi-Newton methods are often used.
The difficulty is that fully understanding customers' needs is often a costly and inexact process.
Watts was convicted of threatening the life of the president, but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction because, duh, the kid was obviously using political hyperbole to make a point and because "he language of the political arena… is often vituperative, abusive, and inexact".
Watts was convicted of threatening the life of the president, but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction because, duh, the kid was obviously using political hyperbole to make a point and because "the language of the political arena… is often vituperative, abusive and inexact".
This branch of quantitative graph analysis is often referred to as inexact graph matching [30], [31] that addresses the problem of determining the structural similarity of graphs in an error-tolerant way [31], [32].
