Sentence examples for marginal risks from inspiring English sources

When you toss in the fact that the individual market is more costly to serve than group markets -- the cost of administering and selling policies can come to 35percentt of premium dollars versus 5percentt for larger groups -- you see why insurers might reject even marginal risks (like us) or offer policies with fewer benefits as well as higher deductibles and co-pays.

We examined the predictive performance of different methods to obtain marginal risks, in terms of calibration.

For each method for calculating marginal risks, the model was fitted to each of the training datasets, and its predictive performance was assessed on the corresponding validation dataset.

However, in practice marginal risks are often obtained, incorrectly, using only estimates of the fixed effects (i.e. by effectively setting the random effects to zero).

We show via simulation that the correct calculation of marginal risks from a random intercepts model results in predictions with excellent calibration.

The cholesterol in low-density lipoproteins was deemed a "marginal risk factor" for heart disease.

"I'm going to receive a return," he said, "that more than compensates me for the marginal risk I'm taking".

He said his decision to declare South Africa's innings closed on the last day at Headingley, taking a marginal risk of defeat, was evidence of this outlook.

Indeed, what the Framingham researchers meant in 1977 when they described LDL cholesterol as a "marginal risk factor" is that a large proportion of people who suffer heart attacks have relatively low LDL cholesterol.

"I would question if Chad is safe enough to risk placing any of the black rhino we have left at even marginal risk while we are losing rhinos at a rate of one every 7.5 hours even in heavy protection like South Africa," he said.

The term would be proportional and opposite in sign to the marginal risk premium with respect to the input under consideration (Koundouri et al., [2006]).