Sentence examples for modest likelihood from inspiring English sources

In support of the model, Douglas Staiger, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, cites research showing that if a teacher receives a high-performing score one year, there is a modest likelihood that he or she will receive a high-performing score the following year.

If clinical algorithms that yield a high enough pre-test probability of malaria were available, even a positive Plasmodium detection test associated with a modest likelihood ratio would help establish the diagnosis.

A 2013 UCLA study published in the BMC Public Health journal found a correlation between outdoor food advertisements and modest increased likelihood of obesity.

Given the high recurrence rate reported in most series, the modest positive likelihood ratio for hs-CRP assays still has high positive predictive value.

Moreover, the other parameters listed in Table 5 are also modest: the positive likelihood ratios of the different cut-off values are rather low, and the negative likelihood ratios are too high except for the cut-off -0.3052.

In spite of it being a self-limiting disease with only modest severity, the likelihood of geographical range expansion is a cause for concern.

This translational intervention had at most a modest impact on likelihood of prompt treatment intensification, and for only two of three priority groups (hypertension and hyperlipidemia).

Let us imagine that it were to be suggested that exposure to nano-particles increased, to a modest extent, the likelihood of development of Alzheimer's disease.

Even classical symptoms, such as a history of weight loss and anaemia yield a modest pooled positive likelihood ratio of 1.89 (95% CI: 1.03 3.07) and 3.67 (95% CI: 1.30 10.35), respectively.

Robert Gardner chief economist at Nationwide predicted house prices  would accelerate at a modest pace, despite the likelihood of interest rate increase from the middle of next year.

Restrictions against their use will threaten their modest sales, with the likelihood that some of these truly great drugs will no longer be manufactured, and their use will be lost to us, permanently.