"marginal degree" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a small or minimal amount or level of something. Example: The benefits of the new policy may only have a marginal degree of impact on our finances.
But if that is right, it is probably only true to a marginal degree.
One area where the Bush administration did make an initial and marginal degree of progress was in the 2002 agreement with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals.
And competitors of NBC News denied they were being overly negative, saying that if NBC News is covering Iraq any more than they are, it is only by a marginal degree.
The exponents of the marginal degree distributions were inferred via linear regression.
The results of our study show that infrainguinal bypass in patients with ESRD and tissue necrosis appears to provide a measurable, but marginal, degree of improvement in quality of life.
We validate our generation model by generating sets of networks from the Krapivsky model and comparing the marginal degree distributions inferred from the generated networks with the asymptotic value predicted by the model.
The objectives of this study were to identify the effect of design parameters, namely marginal thickness, degree of convergence and the different interfacial conditions, on the initial failure load that induces cracking from the margin in glass-simulated dental crowns.
This contribution is called the marginal adequacy degree (MAD).
The degree of aggregation across choices – whether at the paired or marginal level – does not have implications for analysis method.
Marginal marginal level of health literacy.
(alpha _{o} = mu _{o} pm 2 sigma _{textit {SE}} (alpha _{o}^)) specifies the inferred exponent of the marginal out-degree distribution, where μ o is the observed mean of the exponent, σ SE is the standard error, and (alpha _{o}^) is the predicted exponent for the unaltered model.
