For speciation and net diversification rates, the corresponding frequency distributions of parameter values showed no overlap in their 95%% credible intervals (indicating great certainty in these contrasting estimates), but overlap did occur for extinction rates, and more unexpectedly, transition rates (Fig. 4).
"The market wanted some certainty, and Boeing's presentation was credible and deliberate".
In fact, even Mr. Frank's more credible arguments here are undermined by his ideological certainty, his reductive logic and his hectoring tone: some of the very qualities he so detests in the conservatives he tries to eviscerate in these pages.
But when presented with disturbing evidence from credible sources, it is not discrimination to expect certainty, beyond doubt, that a candidate to a top educational post does not bear responsibility for the torture of others, to expect certainty that he has not been dishonest with his employers, faculty, students, professional boards and the American people.
This allows drawing inferences as meaningful differences between groups by evaluating the ranges of their 95% credible intervals (CrI, range of group means, at 0.95 certainty).
Tall, lean, in an immaculate cream suit and pink shirt, Markopolos, 53, cuts a credible figure, although he talks with a degree of utter certainty that can seem, at times, unnerving.
"Only credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of certainty will guide our decision-making".
The letter added: "Given the stakes involved, and what we have learned from our own recent experiences, intelligence assessments alone are not sufficient - only credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of certainty will guide our decision-making".
Extensive research into corium/concrete interaction phenomena has been unable to establish the certainty of melt quench and stabilization within the containment boundary for all credible cases of cooling restricted to top flooding.
A growing school of research -- fueled by newly available DNA evidence -- shows that witnesses as certain and credible as Ms. Weiner are very often wrong, and that there is little correlation between their certainty and their accuracy.
Following the assessment made by our intelligence community in April, the President directed the intelligence community to seek credible and corroborated information to build on that assessment and establish the facts with some degree of certainty.
