Sentence examples for least explanatory from inspiring English sources

They should agree to all submit the woolliest and least explanatory pronouncements they can dream up.

Or more importantly, that the way people feel about Congress in July 2009 is probably the least explanatory variable one can come up with for how people will vote for their representative in November 2010.

For each step the single least explanatory variable was removed until there were no significant difference between the full and all possible reduced models when using the likelihood ratio test with significance level of 0.05.

Assigning nonlinear characteristics to different layers of each soil profile (information that is presently unavailable) and adding at least one explanatory variable in the input layer, related to the loading level, will be required.

Results indicated that Acholi people used at least three explanatory models to explain and respond to the outbreak; indigenous epidemic control measures were often implemented and consistent with those being promoted by healthcare workers; and some cultural practices amplified the outbreak (e.g., burial practices).

Rational choice theory identified or rediscovered at least two major explanatory factors that some political scientists had neglected: (1) that politicians are endlessly opportunistic and (2) that all decisions take place in some type of institutional setting.

Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous models that were unique to each specimen had at least 8% greater explanatory power for apparent modulus than models that applied the same material properties to all specimens.

This is, in fact, a key feature of nominalism: those who defend the view need to show that it is possible to yield at least as much explanatory work as the platonist obtains, but invoking a meager ontology.

This study examined the best fit models using Akaike's Information Criterion; briefly, the selected models explained the greatest proportion of the variance while using the least number of explanatory variables to ensure the greatest precision, accuracy, and repeatability.

There are examples of arguments that fit the patterns approved by Hempel and yet fail to count as explanatory, at least by ordinary lights.

Thus, for instance, the covert "fractional anticipatory goal responses" of Hull (1931 , 1937, the "cognitive maps" of Tolman (1948), and the "representational mediation processes" of Osgood (1952, 1953) all seem to have played at least some of the explanatory roles that earlier, mentalistic psychologists assigned to images.