Sentence examples for estimating the odds from inspiring English sources

The creationist literature abounds in calculations that gleefully pile exponent upon exponent in estimating the odds against a natural origin of life: Morris, for example, assesses the probability at less than 1 in 1053 19744, p. 61).

If a Bayesian meta-analysis could not be performed, due to insufficient data or non-convergence of posteriors, a classical random effects meta-analysis was performed, estimating the odds ratio of hip fracture in the treatment group with 95% confidence intervals (CI) (Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software, Biostat, Englewood, NJ, USA).

Logistic regression was used for estimating the odds ratio of the various possible risk factors.

In estimating the odds ratio from a 2 × 2 table that included a zero cell, 0.5 was added to the count in each cell.

Additional analyses were performed using contact months as a continuous variable estimating the odds ratio associated with one unit increment of social contact month.

We used a substantially enlarged dataset from the UK by estimating the odds ratios associated with screening in overlapping narrow age bands.

Now, it estimated, the odds are one in four.

John Brennan, the former director of the C.I.A., recently estimated the odds of this chance becoming a reality at between twenty and twenty-five per cent.

Based on what has happened in the past, a Bayesian-savvy computer can estimate the odds that it will happen again.

The correct approach, he argued, was to use new actuarial models that estimate the odds that a sex offender will commit new crimes based on facts about him.

All told, Nasa estimates the odds of a person being hit by a piece of space debris are around 1 in 3200.