Sentence examples for for discerning whether from inspiring English sources

A technique that Romano invented in 1992, called "subsampling," is useful for discerning whether a variable – be it surface temperature or stock prices – has changed in the short term based on limited amount of data.

The Supreme Court's Howey test, which sprang from a dispute about orange groves seven decades ago, is the tool the SEC uses for discerning whether or not something is an investment contract, which is a particular type of security that includes some token offerings.

Goldstein has a three-step evaluation process for discerning whether an investment is worth his clients' hard-earned cash.

"Family court was not intended to be the forum for discerning whether or not maltreatment does or does not occur, and because of that, a huge number of abused and maltreated children fall through the cracks of our inefficient family court system". Slavoff, the boys' former neighbor, believes these children are part of that number.

Expected value of CAI (eCAI) provides a direct threshold value for discerning whether the differences in CAI are statistically significant or whether they are merely artifacts that arise from internal biases in the G+C composition and/or amino acid composition of the query sequences (Puigbò et al. 2008).

As an example, after the CAI value of a group of sequences has been calculated, the user can easily (with only a click of the mouse) estimate an expected CAI value for discerning whether the differences in CAI are statistically significant or whether they are merely artifacts.

Such an inquiry is not a valid method of discerning whether private property has been “taken” for Fifth Amendment purposes.

Genotype tests are available for rapidly and inexpensively discerning whether mutations already known to be associated with inhibitor resistance are present in HIV-1 PR and RT sequences.

They seem to be less adept at discerning whether those things are also harmful.

Such a finding could also function as a "negative control" and hence help address a methodological debate in the social network literature about whether statistical methods for discerning influence are falsifiable (Christakis & Fowler, 2013; Cohen-Cole & Fletcher, 2008).

All in all, a remarkable year for discerning diners.