Hodgson's team attracted a certain amount of sympathy and understanding after the Italy defeat but it was beyond them to play with the same attacking panache and, if there is to be a feat of escapology, it will need an almost implausible combination of results and handouts in the final games of Group D. More realistically, they have blown it in their first week.
We asked recipients of the questionnaires to check the wording of the questionnaire; to ensure that the instructions were clear and to identify what might be perceived as implausible combination of attributes and attribute-levels.
Implausible combinations of gestational age and birth weight may identify errors in gestational age, but it can be difficult to determine which measure is reliable.
When simulating stochastic models with more than one random effect parameter, it is important to understand potential correlations among the parameters, and to account for this factor during simulation so as to avoid implausible combinations of parameters in individual subjects.
16 We identified implausible combinations of birth weight and gestational age as those that were larger or smaller than the median plus or minus twice the interquartile range, using birth weight for gestational age centiles as reported by Bonellie et al. 17 In cases of maternal diabetes, we considered birth weights over these limits to be plausible.
Implausible combinations were removed from the analysis.
This is possibly implausible as a the effect of a combination of three new treatments should have a higher variance than the effect of a single new treatment.
Last Sunday, on the season première of "Homeland," a show criticized for being implausible and unhinged, the C.I.A. conducted six simultaneous counterterrorism missions — a combination of drone strikes, assassinations, and renditions — around the world.
A combination of research and narrative, The Mirage Factory is an account of the implausible beginnings of Los Angeles, and the dreams of the figures who shaped it.
The disaster in Japan occurred because the combination of factors that triggered it was not foreseen: it was ipso facto implausible.
The combination of attribute levels whereby an emergency care physician treats people in their own homes was considered to be implausible, and was therefore prohibited in the design.
