Sentence examples for imperfect methods from inspiring English sources

But previous studies, she says, relied on imperfect methods of tracking cells, such as using fluorescent dyes that may have leaked out to other cells.

However he admitted that all such efforts depend on imperfect methods, and didn't dispute Fulvio Orto, from Bocconi University in Italy, when he spoke of a high "noise to signal ratio" in the rankings.

In our bumbling way, we had discovered the same imperfect methods used by the old-timers, like members of the Northern Nut Growers Association (www.nutgrowers.org) or my local extension agent, who told me about the milk truck loaded with 10,000 gallons of milk that drove up his lane, rolled over three bushels of painstakingly gathered nuts and obliterated them.

Other external guesstimates such as Yipit's also point to a drop, but again, the more I learn about how this data is collected, the clearer it is that these are all imperfect methods.

And the increased "accuracy" still remains contentious to some extent – the product of comparing results from different but imperfect methods and interpretation, rather than the "gold standard" craved by clinical trialists.

The method validated in is helpful in verifying possible gene interaction relations in gene networks and filtering out incorrect relations inferred by imperfect methods.

He recommends the imperfect method of suppressing fertility through continued breast-feeding, which many Gazan women had abandoned when international organizations started supplying them with formula that allowed them to wean their babies early.

Although using a benchmark significance level is an imperfect method of detecting time trends, failing to correct for farm-level time trends has its own costs.

As it stands though, filtering interviews with staunch conservatives through a Democrat's lens is an entertaining yet imperfect method.

It's an imperfect method of research, since such subjects are rare and no two have exactly the same injuries.

Postmortem examination (even with culture of tissue samples) is therefore an imperfect method for detecting infection and the use of it as a gold standard against which to judge the performance of other diagnostic tests may introduce significant error.