Sentence examples for gains in certainty from inspiring English sources

Stochastic modeling of the corn ethanol FCI shows that gains in certainty due to knowledge of specific refinery inputs are overwhelmed by uncertainty in parameters external to the refiner, including impacts of fertilization and land use change.

However, the theoretical justifications underpinning the use of NMA instead of PMA are unrelated to the empirical gains in certainty and stand valid regardless of any particular results.

The test and retest opportunity afforded by reviewing a patient over time substantially increases the total gain in certainty when making a diagnosis in low-prevalence settings (the time-efficiency principle).

The total gain in certainty, as indicated by the predictive summary index (PSI, ψ = NPV + PPV − 1) is greatest when the pre-test probability of the disease (prevalence) is around 50% (Table 1, Fig. 1).

What may be less widely appreciated is how the test of time, the strategy of testing and retesting a patient over time, can substantially increase the total gain in certainty that a patient has a particular disease.

We have previously argued that the test re-test opportunity afforded by reviewing a patient maximises the gain in certainty in low prevalence settings such as general practice, the time efficiency principle (Irving and Holden, 2013).

Test performance is conventionally expressed by gain in diagnostic certainty.

Any diagnostic test has an indication area of prior probabilities wherein the gain in diagnostic certainty outweighs its loss.

People in their experiments generally shunned risk when gains, like lives saved, were in question -- they wanted to lock in the gains with certainty.

By giving affirmation, listening to patients' stories, being there and trying to help patients move forward, healthcare professionals can support them in gaining greater existential certainty in their uncertain life predicament.

We propose net diagnostic gain and indication area as more appropriate measures of test performance; then, the loss in certainty due to misclassification and the information of "no test" would be performed are taken into account.