Sentence examples for checked empirically from inspiring English sources

If the basic theory is given in a few papers (Gómez and Maravall 1994, 2001a, b, and others), and can be checked empirically, some of the more sophisticated features like the selection of the canonical decomposition, the derivation of the Wiener-Kolmogorov filters, revisions, and the various diagnostics are more difficult to grasp.

All P values from regression analyses were also checked empirically by means of a bootstrap as well as a permutation procedure.

They seem causally inert and so not the sort of thing that we could check empirically.

Recent methodological advances in discrete choice analysis in combination with certain stated choice experiments have allowed researchers to check empirically the identification of the distribution of latent variables such as the value of travel time (VTT).

Having data on one hospital only, we have not been able to check empirically the amount of clustering of safety attitudes at the hospital level, but, as indicated by Sexton, Helmreich, Neilands et al. [ 4], there probably are hospital-specific patient safety cultures.

The models for cross-sectoral networks are theoretically based, focused on factors which are changeable and use indicators which are empirically checked in an easy way.

To empirically check this hypothesis, the researchers may restrict their attention to a single benchmark network.

We interpreted significantly non-zero β x values as support for differences in taxon abundance between social groups, using a false discovery rate threshold of 10% (Storey and Tibshirani, 2003) after checking that an empirically derived null distribution of p-values for this analysis was uniform.

Although such conventional stability checks are empirically thought to provide a sufficient margin of safety for highway bridge foundations, and even against larger earthquakes, this perception has not yet been thoroughly justified.

The reliability of the local seismic response obtained by numerical modelling respect to the empirically derived one was checked in terms of both site-to-reference spectral ratios and transfer function between surface and downhole sites inside the landslide mass.

Researchers must check the tiers' difficulties empirically during validation and use.