Sentence examples for be a poor approximation from inspiring English sources

While the empirical literature on returns to education relies almost exclusively on school attainment as a measure of human capital, such measure may in fact be a poor approximation of an individual's effective human capital.

We note that odds ratios should be interpreted with caution since they may be a poor approximation to relative risks with outcomes that have a high prevalence.

But it turns out that such random graphs are a poor approximation because they miss two important features.

But this is a poor approximation of what the real Jobs did: his achievements were far more extraordinary, if harder to visualize.

On the other hand, in situations where T′ is still successful but T is a poor approximation to T′, T will fail.

In the floodplains the land surface slope is a poor approximation of the water table gradient that is captured by the MODFLOW model but not the GIS that uses the land surface as a surrogate for the water table.

A large positive value of ρ indicates a good approximation which allows us to decrease h so that the LM step is closer to the Gauss-Newton step, whereas a small or negative ρ is a poor approximation which requires an increase of damping by twofold in order to get closer to the steepest direction and hence increase chances of faster convergence.

Equipartition no longer holds because it is a poor approximation to assume that the energy levels form a smooth continuum, which is required in the derivations of the equipartition theorem above.

However, the diffusion approximation assumes that the internal radiance is nearly isotropic and consequently it is a poor approximation when scattering is comparable to absorption [ 14].

If A = 0, the result is a poor approximation, as the most sparse solution is a zero weight vector, w = 0.

However, predictive power is retained down to rather low pairwise distances, see Figure 2 figure supplement 1, where the model is a poor approximation.