Sentence examples for exceeding proportion from inspiring English sources

If after a random-walk step the value proposed exceeds the boundaries, then the exceeding proportion of the step is reflected back.

Cheaper screening tests that miss some true positives can be more cost-effective if proportional reductions in cost exceed proportion of subjects missed.

In both volunteers and outbreak situations, a sizable proportion of the infected subjects are asymptomatic, often exceeding the proportion who manifest clinical illness [ 65, 66].

Theoretically, at the proportion of 96%, the estimated proportion in 2001 exceeds the proportion in 1987.

Hanson's broader aim is to focus attention on what seems to him a startling fact: "a small percentage of Americans," he says, are "committing violent crimes at rates far exceeding their proportion of the general population".

In the fully participating group, too, the percentage of foreign nationals was quite high, exceeding the proportion of 36% in the Zurich CPT population.

The kappa index of reliability was used to quantify the extent to which the observed proportion of agreements exceeded the proportion of agreements expected by chance alone.

Each terminal node is categorised as 1 (positive) or 0 (negative) depending on whether the proportion of 1's exceeds the proportion of 1's in the population (30.3%).

As expected, these results indicated that our admixed HUFS sample was more similar to YRI than CEU, i.e., the proportion of African ancestry exceeded the proportion of European ancestry.

With dengue fever reaching and exceeding epidemic proportions in countries like Sri Lanka, more unusual complications of this very common disease are to be expected.

The generalizability of these results also may be somewhat limited by the predominance of Caucasian women, though the proportion of elderly women does exceed the proportion of elderly men in the general U.S. population.