Sentence examples for crude comparisons from inspiring English sources

Crude comparisons of admissions data give little sense of relative competition by subject".

The IFS and Office for National Statistics have consistently argued that crude comparisons between public and private sector wages are misleading.

The sudden closure of the state TV and radio broadcaster ERT last month, without any debate or vote in Parliament, brought back memories of tanks and martial music for many who would normally reject such crude comparisons.

Non-parametric Wilcoxon and Kruskall-Wallis tests were used for crude comparisons of quantitative variables among groups, and the chi-squared test used for comparisons of categorical variables.

Multivariate models adjusted for selected demographic and risk variables known to be associated with HIV risk and disease progression as well as variables that were statistically different in crude comparisons and included age, race, injection and noninjection drug use, number of lifetime sexual partners, use of herpes medications and antiretroviral therapy, as well as baseline CD4+ T cell count.

The above crude comparisons were not adjusted for age or competing risks.

"I just did a crude comparison - and it was back when the pound was strong - which is why we ended up with a £25,000 commitment in the UK".

It might seem like a slightly crude comparison, but there are some similarities, with both women and Jews frequently being othered by a world that presents them with no alternative home.

Any BSI may be contaminated by false reports or contagion effects so that a crude comparison of BSI's across different groups is not appropriate.

In the present system we do expect people to go out and look for work if they can and if they lose their jobs we think about their needs, not just some crude comparison".

Using a crude comparison of a company's annual revenue and its domicile's economic output, The Economist has identified the firms with the greatest national clout across 53 markets.