Sentence examples for empirical decision from inspiring English sources

An empirical decision tree was used to model interactions between climatic variability, commodity price volatility and economic returns.

A different tack is to deny that a concept is useless if there is no effective empirical decision procedure for ascertaining whether it applies.

Chemotherapy is an option in the case of metastatic or unresectable disease [8], but it is still an empirical decision owing to the lack of evidence.

The reason for this empirical decision was that the 1989 CPS supplements were constructed using a relatively small sample, so that noise from employing a probit structure could obscure the true size of the coefficients.

However, the cutoff value for residue selection is an empirical decision and is expected to depend on the intrinsic properties of the protein family being analyzed.

A total of 48 had methotrexate-resistant disease, eight had severe methotrexate toxicity and an empirical decision to change treatment was made in three.

Empirical decision-making in diverse species deviates from the predictions of normative choice theory, but why such suboptimal behavior occurs is unknown.

For an empirical antimicrobial decision strategy it is important to know the differences between local and imported data.

Thus, clinicians are often forced to make critical empirical antibiotic decisions without the aid of microbiologically confirmed data [13].

However, substantial geographic variability in the proportion of pneumococci resistant to different antimicrobial drugs at the international and national levels suggests that the impact of resistance on empirical treatment decisions may vary across regions.

The antibiogram is a tool that facilities can use to identify common resistance patterns (e.g. high levels of fluoroquinolone resistance), which may influence providers' empirical antibiotic decisions [ 91].