Sentence examples for modest explanatory from inspiring English sources

Variation in weather conditions had modest explanatory power (<6%) for predicting overall and domain-specific physical activity engagement in this sample.

He concluded that the indicators of family cultural capital only had modest explanatory power, and he also observed that the effects of these variables may be better interpreted as indirect signs of the importance of cognitive resources.

That such an account does not, without additional assumptions, explain why one should expect one's measurement records to exhibit the standard quantum statistics in a world directly described by pure wave mechanics is a weakness of the account, but, arguably, one that need not have worried Everett given the relatively modest explanatory aim of empirical faithfulness.

CRW1683 and CRW1862 show modest explanatory power to predict resistance scores (plant bioassays R = 0.23 and 0.07, respectively).

a. Unavailability of longitudinal measurements: The cross-sectional study design imposed a major limitation in that it failed to capture household level variability over time, a major reason for the modest explanatory power of the model for predicting the situation in individual households.

(For a more modest and explanatory account of Detroit's demise, there is Paul Clemens's 2011 book, "Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant").

The table also confirms the only modest reduction in explanatory power when moving from the full model 4 to the parsimonious model 5.

Thus, some kind of variable selection procedure is frequently needed to eliminate unrelated features (noise) for providing a more observant analysis of the relationship between a modest number of explanatory variables and the response.

However, this model only provided modest improvement in explanatory power (R2 = 0.34) and produced effect estimates that were counterintuitive for two of the variables (traffic-weighted road length and Class 3 roads within 400 m), likely influenced by the correlation between covariates.

Although attitudes had significant association with burden, their explanatory power was modest (R2 =.104, F = 4,55; p =.039).

Mr. Evans-Cato said he would like to see a modest monument on the site, perhaps an explanatory marker and 13 trees.