It contains at least four false statements: the senator involved is fictitious, the total number of votes is higher than is possible in Italian politics, the amount of money involved is more than 10% of Italian GDP and the law itself is an invention.
The $65bn was entirely fictitious, the sum total of more than 14,000 Madoff investors' accounts, all with made-up returns fabricated over many decades.
For the Monte-Carlo experiments, we use the following conditions: total numbers of fictitious "individuals" are chosen as N =50, 100 and 200.
We choose total numbers of fictitious data sets of 50, 100 and 200, and we assume pre-test probabilities of category "disease" [P(D)] increasing from 0.10 to 0.90 in steps of 0.10.
For scenarios with quite different distributional characteristics underlying the computer-generated data sets, and for different total numbers of fictitious "individuals" (i.e., data sets), we focus on the effects of varying P(D) on the optimum cut-off levels obtained, and on sensitivities and specificities associated with these threshold values.
Mr. Madoff's operation made transfers directly to Mr. Friedman totaling $1.3 million in fictitious profits, the lawsuit states.
"Such fictitious votes could be added to totals wherever Zanu-PF was vulnerable," R. W. Johnson, author of the institute's report, wrote.
The objective function is defined in terms of the member lengths, and it can be regarded as the total strain energy corresponding to fictitious elastic material properties.
One such algorithm was proposed by Pedersen et al. Here, each state is assigned a fictitious energy level, initially equal to the total energy of the state.
We use the path-independence property of total logarithmic strains to propose different fictitious paths which can be interpreted as a sum of infinitesimal engineering strain tensors.
