Sentence examples for implausible estimate from inspiring English sources

A model without regression does not give an adequate fit of the data (P less than 0.001), and results in an implausible estimate of 33 years for the mean duration of pre-invasive lesions.

However, the calculations underlying the cost effectiveness estimate did not take into account the adverse consequences of overdiagnosis, and used an implausible estimate for the reduction in breast cancer mortality of about 50% for the first 10 years of screening.

The article examines the importance of evaluating fertility data prior to estimation as utilising poor quality data leads to deriving implausible estimates of fertility.

Given their estimated employment elasticity for those in the bottom decile of the skill distribution (the affected workers) of −0.076, and an employment rate in this group of 44%, the employment effect implied by the increase they consider is −6%, an estimate that cannot be used to dismiss the methods out of hand as providing implausible estimates.15.15

Before 1981 extrapolation at ward level resulted in a few implausible estimates, so numbers within wards were assumed to be the same proportion of the county district estimates as in the nearest census.

For high income countries data were obtained from as early as 1915, but records from this time until the mid-1930 s are patchy and inconsistent, resulting in implausible estimates (as seen in Figure 2 below).

Second, a number of implausible estimates of price elasticities ranging between -3 and -27 (30 observations) arose, where the branded and generic pack price were relatively similar in value; probably indicating that at least in these cases the generic price was not a reasonable approximation to marginal cost.

While it is implausible to estimate the total effects of increased tax, the models help to illustrate the relative reductions in units of tobacco consumed across tertiles alongside revenue generation for the government.

Exclusions were made for 216 (0.3%) observations that had missing or implausible clinical estimates for gestational age at birth, and 66 (0.1%) observations that had missing or implausible birth weights.

Overall, findings relating to adverse effects on reproductive health have been equivocal and are often limited by crude exposure measures or implausible retrospective estimates of exposure to DBPs.

Dietary data were deemed implausible when energy estimates fell below or exceeded a range of acceptable estimated energy requirements based on age, weight, and sex as described previously (16).