"negative discrepancy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to an amount or quantity that is lower than expected or desired. For example: "The negative discrepancy between predicted sales and actual sales was larger than anticipated."
Using the prediction equation, 70 countries had PDs with "negative discrepancy", while 58 had PDs with "positive discrepancy".
A large negative discrepancy will highlight the needs to survey their physician's workloads and their well-being, and to improve quality of medical performance as well.
The above factors, being difficultly translated into "data" for analyses, may explain why some countries with negative discrepancy of PD had good health outcome.
For a "negative discrepancy" (the observed PD less than the predicted PD), physician manpower can be considered as "under the norm", rather than "a deficit".
There were 70 countries (70/130, 53.8%) with observed PDs that had "negative discrepancy", and 58 that had "positive discrepancy" (58/130, 44.6%).
Children with no discrepancy between the two figures were considered to be 'ok' with their body size (i.e., to have body size satisfaction), children with positive discrepancy were considered to have a 'desire to be smaller' , and children with negative discrepancy were considered to have a 'desire to be bigger'.
Both positive and negative discrepancies are counted and the method gets the factors minimizing these discrepancies.
Positive discrepancies are recorded when the observed rating is 1, while the analysis estimate is 0. Negative discrepancies are the number of times the observed rating is 0, while the estimate value is 1.
FBA predictions using a mixture of L- and R- isomers of 1,2 propanediol (a racemic mixture of 1,2 propanediol is used as the sole carbon source in Biolog PM1 plates) resolved aerobic false negative discrepancies for 1,2 propanediol for five E. coli strains, without introducing any new false positives (data not shown).
In order to assess the clinical impact of this potential false negative IHC discrepancy on clinical outcome, we compared disease-free survival in this subset of patients defined by expression-based or IHC-based ER status.
One prognostic study on parent adolescent disagreement regarding behavioral and emotional problems as a risk factor for adverse outcome 4 years later showed an association between negative mother child discrepancies on the subscales 'withdrawn' and 'anxious/depressed' of the CBCL and YSR and adverse outcome 4 years later.
