Sentence examples for explanatory breadth from inspiring English sources
However, while consanance with intuitions is desirable, semantical intuitions can be trumped by a theory's explanatory breadth.
writing in the journal Nature: "Just as athletes can win an Olympic gold medal by beating the world record only by a fraction of a second, scientists can continue to receive Nobel Prizes for improving the explanatory breadth of theories or the preciseness of measurements".
A multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relative importance of the different variables, regressing the log-transformed range-size (response variable) upon the explanatory variables (range properties, species' age, niche breadth and habitat preference) and the phylogenetic PVR components.
Integration of Chinese concepts into mainstream sociological theory enhances the explanatory powers of the latter and enriches both the breadth and depth of its apprehension of social phenomena.
Environmental or niche breadth is one property that likely holds explanatory power.
To see this web, the parsimonious selection of explanatory variables favored in multivariate analyses must be balanced with adequate breadth of measures to avoid over-simplifying complex realities.
For example, if we were to generate a multiple linear regression model to explain the variation in the expression breadth and to include the expression level as an explanatory variable, the resulting model has an extremely high R value of 0.72.
Through such close examination, the explanatory depth of the theory would be enhanced, although some of its breadth would be lost.
This breadth, we would argue, gives this model an edge over those whose explanatory power is limited to object recognition memory.
The decree itself is self-explanatory about the intention to slaughter not only the diversity of opinion, but also striking in its breadth of liquidation.
