Sentence examples for more imprecision from inspiring English sources

Finally, the use of broader age categories leads to more imprecision in estimates of PVLE, so we recommend that researchers use the 5-year age brackets when feasible.

Compared to the use of average multiple spot urine measurements or 24-hr urine specimens, the use of a single spot urine for perchlorate and iodine measurement has more imprecision in estimating true urine levels (Andersen et al. 2001).

However, the total imprecision of the cord-blood analysis was much greater than suggested by the laboratory quality control, and the hair mercury analysis was even more imprecise (Budtz-Jorgensen et al. 2004).

New guidance published after our review describes each criterion for appraising evidence more explicitly, including imprecision [ 33], allowing further downgrading for indirectness, imprecision, and reporting bias [ 11].

Second, versions of an instrument in languages which differ in semantic structure may also be more prone to imprecision.

The explanation for this effect is that in a later phase of fracture healing, the determination of bending stiffness is more sensitive to imprecision (Chehade et al. 1997).

5 The youngest age class excepted, where grades are the lowest (ie, more susceptible to imprecision in scoring), no significant differences were observed between S-P and NE subjects.

Economists expressed no alarm about the results, which have repeatedly been weak for January in recent years, suggesting more than the usual imprecision in the way the Commerce Department adjusts the data for recurring seasonal swings.

The results of this comparison show that the fuzzy set approach is more suitable for evaluating imprecision in screening models than the classical technique.

First, measurement imprecision is more likely to arise in brief instruments.

44 While our analysis showed consistent associations for ischaemic stroke and air pollution, the association for haemorrhagic stroke was more variable with larger imprecision.