Sentence examples for functional assumption from inspiring English sources

The relationship between EQ-5D and predictor variables was nonparametrically estimated by a local polynomial smoothing of a general additive regression without making a functional assumption about the relationship.

And for all those polite interrogators, I beg you to take the functional assumptions off the table – there are a million and one other polite topics to discuss.

The geometrical and functional assumptions of the model are discussed.

The CID does not require distributional and functional assumptions regarding the data and is useful for analyzing noisy microarray data.

Our analysis reveals a mismatch between the basic functional assumptions of the event analyst on the motives of social actors involved in an event and on the other hand, the perspective held by the social actors themselves.

In Proposition 6, we will explore the effects of different qualitative functional assumptions on the feedback loop dynamics f (u).

Cubic-spline smoothers have been shown to accurately detect even subtle changes in RGR without imposing any functional assumptions on the data (Shipley and Hunt 1996).

This is either because the number of mutations between them implies that the possibility of obtaining one from the other in a reasonable time is negligible [ 39, 62], or because of structural or functional assumptions that are translated into "replicative isolation" in the model [ 40- 49] 49].

In this article, we explore the "functional localization" assumption and its role in interpreting lesioning data, especially from double dissociations.

The functional localization assumption states that units or subunits within an information processing system become functionally specialized for dealing with specific aspects of the input environment.

Relaxing the functional form assumption of the outcome equation is indeed a clear advantage for matching methods when nonlinearities are presented in the data under analysis.