Sentence examples for evaluating the odds from inspiring English sources

We have actuarial tables for health and automotive matters, but none for terrorism; we have no way of evaluating the odds of, say, a repeat of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Making this comparison is useful for clinicians who are evaluating the odds of a patient's being infected with a resistant organism.

One study evaluating the odds of very PTB (< 32 weeks) found strong associations with pre-existing type 1 diabetes, but the clinical subtype of PTB was not differentiated [ 34].

A more exacting way to evaluate the odds is by estimating each team's chance of winning the Stanley Cup as a function of its playoff seed and its regular-season power rating.

A third metric evaluated the odds that an Obama supporter who was an inconsistent voter could be nudged to the polls, and a fourth score estimated how persuadable someone was by a conversation on a particular issue (which was, of course, also determined by crunching more numbers).

Logistic regression of method used on the occurrence of perforation was employed to evaluate the odds of perforation for each method.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the odds of a composite complication of intubation following failed NIPPV compared to patients intubated primarily in the medical intensive care unit (ICU).

A propensity adjustment for the factors expected to affect the decision to initially use NIPPV was used, and the adjusted multivariate regression analysis was performed to evaluate the odds of a composite complication (desaturation, hypotension, or aspiration) with intubation following failed NIPPV versus primary intubation.

For each HPV type evaluated, the odds of a positive test were significantly increased among individuals who tested positive at the previous visit.

Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the odds ratios (ORs) with 95% CI.

Logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the odds ratio of LEAD.