Sentence examples for criterion instead of a from inspiring English sources

As a consequence, grades could be based on such an a priori defined criterion instead of a more arbitrary defined minimum score value.

Finally, given the very high PE of SNP-based parentage control, it may be better to use the achieved maximum PE for an individual parentage control as criterion, instead of a fixed number of SNPs (85 or 90) as requirement limit.

In this article, we investigate techniques for optimizing sparsity criteria by focusing on the use of an ℓ1 criterion instead of an ℓ2 one.

The authors state several arguments concerning the advantages of optimizing an error criterion instead of using a maximum likelihood approach for that, as employed by the work of Roth and Black [18].

Cella et al (2001), who used diagnostic criteria instead of a dimensional instrument, determined a prevalence rate of cancer-related fatigue of 17% in patients who completed chemotherapy treatment, most of whom had breast cancer, based on meeting at least 2 of the 14 suggested criteria.

Using set criteria instead of a distribution-based cutoff for identifying "presence" of the environmental chemical or using a range of cutoffs for determining when an individual is "exposed" (Bell and Edwards 2014) may be desirable to adjust the false nondiscovery rate (Genovese and Wasserman 2002; Sarkar 2002; Storey 2003).

In addition, it might be fruitful to use the sentiment measures at hand in combination with alternative methods that can even incorporate sentiment as an optimization criterion instead of using it as an input variable.

Additionally, important psychometric issues need to be addressed regarding use of an independent measure of the same construct as an external criterion, instead of simply using another self-report measure, when using an anchor-based approach to MCID.

To address the dataset imbalance present here, the average of sensitivity and specificity was used as a criterion, instead of absolute accuracy.

Similarly, we used HbA1c as a criterion instead of fasting serum glucose because we did not have data on fasting serum glucose.

There is considerable discussion whether in atypical depression rejection sensitivity should be included as a main criterion instead of mood reactivity.