Sentence examples for deviance against from inspiring English sources

The French Football Federation has already announced that Tuesday's international friendly against England at Wembley Stadium will go ahead as planned in a move of deviance against the terrorist attackers, although whether Diarra plays any part is not known.

Association of genotypes with the variable response (gene expression level) was calculated by fitting linear equations and P values obtained by assessing the change in deviance against the null model.

Model selection was based on Akaike information criterion (AIC), which attempts to find the simplest model that adequately explains data by trading-off reductions in residual deviance against the number of parameters used in a model (see [ 17] for a review of model selection approaches).

Their cameras lovingly embrace their spot-free skin, dance longingly over their hairless creamy thighs and delve head-first into their wide-eyed deviance, usually against backdrops which enhance their beauty with a pinch of suburban opulence (The Virgin Suicides), or actuate their downfall (The Bling Ring).

The model fit was evaluated by plotting the deviance residuals against the covariates [ 21].

Model validation plots of standardised deviance residuals against predicted values demonstrated in general a satisfactory fit.

There was no pattern in the plots of deviance residuals against different covariates.

17 Outlying points were considered by plotting the deviance residuals against the leverage for each participant.

Model fit was inspected by plotting standardised deviance residuals against covariates and predicted values.

Using intimate oral histories gathered from hundreds of ex-Soviets, Figes explores the ways that Stalinism conflated individualism with deviance and campaigned against imagination, faith, and family ties.

Plots of the change in Pearson χ 2 and Deviance χ 2 against predictive probability was used to detect outliers or influential points.