Since the controls are closely matched in time to cases, OR is a close approximation to the incidence rate ratio [ 20], which with these small incidence rates is in turn close to the RR.
And it bears no close approximation to the truth.
But he said that in his younger days that character was really a pretty close approximation to himself".
The Chebyshev parallel motion is a three-bar linkage that gives a very close approximation to exact rectilinear motion.
Instead, Mr Das worked out a way to make a close approximation to the prices that result from the condition.
"It's somewhat time consuming and tedious," Mr. Molczan said, acknowledging that the precise and methodical activities might seem, to the uninitiated, "a close approximation to work".
But for atmosphere, serenity and a chance to stay right on the sand, it is, like much of this coast, a pretty close approximation to paradise.
It is perhaps not too surprising that, in interviews, Black has tended to come across as a close approximation to his onscreen incarnations.
That, however, is a close approximation to the natural state of any new fictional universe, before the novelist has variegated and populated it.
A mathematical model of transesterification was developed in MATLab and demonstrated a close approximation to experimental data.
Breakfast in Britain, elevenses en route and lunch in a close approximation to heaven: that is the prospect offered by a trip to Ghent.
