In addition, sample panels were constituted without any selection for disease severity, and negative controls included not only healthy patients but also patients who had a wide range of other conditions, thereby avoiding inflated estimates of diagnostic accuracy.
A strength in our study was that mothers and fathers reported their alcohol use and mental distress independently, thereby avoiding inflated effect sizes due to single responders reporting on all measures.
Leibovitz avoids inflated claims for what she does and deflects compliments that her pictures have "captured someone" with a confirmed belief that a photograph can never get more than "a tiny slice of a subject".
Tao wrote that both Zhang Heng and Cai Yong "avoided inflated language, aiming chiefly at simplicity", and adding that their "compositions begin by giving free expression to their fancies but end on a note of quiet, serving admirably to restrain undisciplined and passionate nature".
It's not that this inspired-by-fact story of celebrated scout and mountain man Hugh Glass and his battle for survival after being chewed up, spit out and left for dead by a particularly enraged bear completely avoids inflated moments, including but not limited to dreams, visions and folk wisdom of "the wind cannot affect a tree with strong roots" variety.
Therefore, to avoid inflated performance estimates on imbalanced data sets, we calculated the balanced accuracy too.
The balanced accuracy, which avoids inflated performance estimates on imbalanced datasets, was used in GENN as a fitness function.
In order to avoid inflated standard errors and numerically unstable results, Hosmer and Lemeshow recommend having at least 10 cases per event, which limited us to seven variables (69 participants had ED visits during the pretest period) and two variables (23 participants had ED visits during the pretest period) for the posttest period.
Heavy.com, a site that tries to attract young men with its irreverent video clips and animation, is also a page popper, though the company says it has taken steps to avoid inflating traffic statistics or upsetting advertisers.
"The terminology the [U.S. government] uses should convey the magnitude of the threat we face, but also avoid inflating the religious bases and glamorous appeal of the extremists' ideology".
The organisation, which represents banks and building societies, added the scheme must be matched with a similar focus on boosting the supply of new housing to avoid inflating a housing bubble.
