Sentence examples for defensible using from inspiring English sources

The choice of the model must be defensible using statistical and substantive considerations such as model complexity and interpretability.

The magazines have no defensible use outside of combat and law enforcement.

Yet after chatting with representatives at several GPS tracking companies and trying out their products, I learned that there are many less icky, entirely defensible uses for such devices.

This, he said, "would be more scientifically defensible than using just one criterion".

Pruitt's use of a National Guard helicopter to visit the Liberty mine is less defensible than using one to survey a natural disaster or even to celebrate a sporting event, and the fact that he tried to hide information about this and other trips suggests that he knew as much.

These steps will ensure that results of screening-level evaluations, prioritizations, and targeted analyses are scientifically defensible and used appropriately in decision making.

Here we examine the reliability of an LEM to predict catchment form over geological time (500,000 years) for a potential rehabilitated mine landform using defensible parameters derived from field plots.

After Roman occupation in the early Middle Ages some hillforts were reoccupied and petty kingdoms were often ruled from smaller nucleated forts using defensible natural features, as at Edinburgh and Dunbarton.

The choices motivated by the resulting association illustrate that it is easy to bias results with arguably legitimate methods using defensible cutoffs (i.e., cutoffs that would be legitimate if they were chosen for a reason other than data mining) [ 4].

By using statistically defensible Gaussian definitions for LSI, we reduce false positive classification in asymptomatic subjects to 2.28% per segment.

That system might be defensible were it used merely to inform parents, but for a multiplex manager to rule on what someone else's children may or may not see is impertinent.