Sentence examples for empirical pattern of from inspiring English sources

For example, the theory of punctuated equilibria (Eldredge 1971; Eldredge and Gould 1972; see Eldredge 2008a) combines the notion of geographic speciation with the empirical pattern of stasis in the fossil record in effect applying Simpson's ideas of rapid evolutionary change down to the level of species.

Generating 100,000 competitions under each combination of models for each sport, we find a consistent pattern across sports (Figure 6): the Markov model of game tempo provides little improvement over the Bernoulli model in capturing the empirical pattern of lead-size variation, while the Markov model for balance provides a significant improvement over the Bernoulli model.

Similarly, the fact that motif preferences are very similar even in mammals and Gallus is solid evidence that the empirical pattern of mammalian NBDM has been conserved by natural selection for a long time.

Because of its greater capacity to replicate the empirical pattern of diverging lifespan variability trends, the Siler model was used in the subsequent analysis to examine the sensitivity of the age-specific variability measures to actual changes in each parameter over time.

These cast doubt that empirical patterns of contagious defaults can solely be explained by networks of nominal liabilities.

We can easily find traces of this behavior in the review of the basic empirical patterns of older workers in Spain (section 2.2).

We presented an integrated hierarchical model of psychopathology that more accurately captures empirical patterns of comorbidity between clinical syndromes and personality disorders.

Empirical patterns of the PRE and its dependence on solar radio flux, season, longitude, and geomagnetic activity have been derived from measurements of the Jicamarca incoherent scatter radar and satellites (Fejer et al. 1991, 2008).

A pattern-oriented modeling (POM) and abductive reasoning approach is used to compare the ability of alternative decision-making models to explain empirical patterns of housing and insurance market dynamics.

This conclusion is supported by the empirical patterns of migrant self-employment in the OECD (OECD 2010) as well as studies from, e.g., Germany which find that it is more likely for less educated migrants to be self-employed than for higher educated migrants (Constant and Zimmermann 2006).

Knowledge regarding the degree to which some closely related species occur on similar positions on soil resource gradients may help uncover mechanisms underlying empirical patterns of community phylogenetic structure.