Sentence examples for dummy to avoid from inspiring English sources

Thomas Siebel used a corporate beast with the colorful name "horizontal double dummy" to avoid a big tax hit when he sold his Siebel Systems to Oracle this year.

Since having or not having a birth certificate is likely to be a household characteristic, we dropped household dummies to avoid problems with multicollinearity.

There was no catalyst layer in the dummy cell and only air was supplied into the dummy cell to avoid electrochemical degradation of the MPL.

His former secretary, Renata Moura Alves, says that Mr. Luxemburgo was involved in a series of illegal schemes, from clandestine payments from the sale of player contracts to money laundering and the purchase of apartments, paintings and luxury automobiles through dummy companies to avoid taxes.

Urethane was considered as dummy template to avoid residual template and TEOS as the cross linker.

Categorical variables were transformed into dummy variables to avoid any assumption concerning the estimation of the relative risks between subgroups.

We modelled missing data for each categorical variable as a dummy term to avoid the loss of data and to permit direct comparison of each model using the deviance statistic.

"Alzheimer's for Dummies" evaluates different drug therapies, "Beekeeping for Dummies" advises you to avoid perfume and "always wear your veil when you're inspecting your hive," and "Google for Dummies" explains how to buy advertising on the almighty search engine.

aThese centres are ignored since all scores for these centres belong to one priority group only (to avoid dummy traps).

In the FEM, 254 dummies will be used to represent 15 countries to avoid the dummy variable trap (perfect collinearity).

Missing values on analytical variables have been imputed to the country-specific mean using the dummy-variable imputation method to avoid losing further observations (Allison 2002).