Sentence examples for methods of nearest from inspiring English sources

They combine methods of nearest neighbour counts and quadrat surveys into a second-order statistic that looks at the variances of distances to neighbours in two-dimensional space using concentric circles with increasing radii from each sample point (Haase 1995).

To further reduce the resolution to the nanometer scale, methods of near-field laser irradiation with the combination of advanced processing tools such as SPM, NSOM, transparent, and metallic particles are applied for the sizes as small as 20 nm.

Five broad methods of near-miss case review/audit were identified: Facility-based near-miss case review, confidential enquiries, criterion-based clinical audit, structured case review (South African Model) and home-based interviews.

The framework provides options for health facilities to adapt and use either one or multiple methods of near-miss assessment, in order to monitor and improve their quality of maternal health services [Figure  1].

It uses the method of nearest shrunken centroids to find out the minimal set of genes that provides the greatest accuracy of class prediction.

In this paper, we review the method of nearest shrunken centroid for gene expression data, and extend it to tackle SNP data classification.

A predictive model for the patient outcome status (alive vs. dead) five years after diagnosis was generated using the method of nearest shrunken centroids classification [ 18].

Independently to the analysis described above, we generated a predictive model for patient outcome using the method of nearest shrunken centroids classification [ 18] based on data of both studies.

The C.I.A. has said it used waterboarding, a method of near-drowning previously used in the Navy's SERE program, on three captured terrorism suspects in 2002 and 2003.

The performance of the proposed algorithm is superior to the method of near-diffraction-limited image reconstruction in visual quality.

The method of autofluorescence gave lower prediction errors for collagen content than did the method of near infrared reflectance when applied to the same batters.