Sentence examples for distorted measures from inspiring English sources

Thus, the crude birth rates are somewhat distorted measures of reproductivity, because the percentage of total population at reproductive ages is not taken into account.

Distorted measures carry the error in their meta-analysis.

When oil prices surged in 1973-74, Mr Burns asked the Fed's economists to strip out energy from the CPI to get a "less distorted" measure.

When oil prices surged in 1973-74, Burns asked the Fed's economists to strip out energy from the consumer-price index (CPI) to get a less distorted measure.

The problem is that when the amount a person was paid in a previous job is not level to their male or white counterparts, it is a distorted measure of their skills and contributions.

The variance explained by each individual component is included with the maps (it is a slightly distorted measure of their abundance as the data was Poisson scaled and XRF sensitivity increases with Z) Fig. 3 Distribution maps of the twelve components (11 paints and canvas) extracted for area (2).

The variance explained by each individual component is included with the maps (it is a slightly distorted measure of their abundance as the data was Poisson scaled and XRF sensitivity increases with Z) Fig. 4 Signature spectra for the twelve components (11 paints and canvas) extracted by MCR-ALS and identifying characteristic lines for the elements present.

The Kullback-Leibler distance (KLD) between the probability distribution of the wavelet coefficients of the reference and distorted images is used as a distortion measure.

However, the frequency of transitions between the round and distorted states measured at various [ATP] was rather best fitted with a simple Michaelis Menten equation with Km = 0.35 ± 0.13 mM (Fig. 2e; blue open circles); here the transition frequency is defined by the total number of transition cycles between round and distorted states divided by the total period of HS-AFM observation.

The American economy is often rooted in unbridled materialism, a culture that continues to extol greed, a false standard of values that puts short-term profits over societal health, and a distorted calculus that measures human worth by personal income instead of character, integrity, and generosity.

When the distorted image is measured, caution should be exercised, as the measurement may be affected.