Sentence examples for meaningless estimates from inspiring English sources

For our simulated sleep bouts, following this threshold method resulted in good but meaningless estimates of fit due to discarding a large portion of the sample data.

Based on these observations, we hypothesize that the objective function manifold that uses a combination of RMSE and constraints gets rid of various local minima that correspond to physically meaningless parameter estimates and thus facilitates a much more efficient estimation of parameter values.

An alternative, yet somewhat simpler, calculation of the velocity can be done by taking a numerical derivative of the position trajectory; however, one must ensure the trajectory has been properly smoothed if this method is chosen the derivative of noise is undefined and can provide the researcher with meaningless velocity estimates.

Variation between the periods and stands was remarkable, and correlations between ingrowth and basal area were very weak and nonsignificant for spruce (r = -0.009, p-value = 0.954) and birch (r = -0.162, p-value = 0.271), whereas for pine it became meaningless to estimate the correlation coefficient due to too few observations.

As noted by Bender et al. (1995) the comparison of observed and expected numbers (as in calculating the standardized incidence ratios) when applied to populations known a priori to be unusual invalidates the laws of probability and renders resultant estimates meaningless.

But even if production returns to normal, it will be meaningless for the estimated four million in South Sudan in danger of starvation.

"At $2 a share, earnings estimates are meaningless," he said.

However an absolute strength estimate is meaningless without considering individual stature.

Lack of identifiability implies that the parameter estimation techniques may not fail but any obtained numerical estimates will be meaningless.

It is considered meaningless to search for accurate estimates of some "true" risk as in the probability of frequency approach, reflecting the average state of a number of human and organisational factors.

Forcing a random-effects meta-analysis in the presence of large heterogeneity can produce an average estimate that is meaningless.