Sentence examples for overly sparse from inspiring English sources
Therefore, we may face overly sparse and potentially somewhat noisy state probability estimates.
The potential downside of relying on a single set of exemplars to estimate state probabilities is that it may yield overly sparse state probability vectors.
The state Department of Insurance tightened up these rules for health plans under its jurisdiction this year, after complaints soared about overly sparse networks.
In this case, the amount of regularization applied to the STRF depends on the overall level of noise in the data, and in the case of a low signal-to noise ratio, GLM STRFs will be overly sparse (see Methods).
We limited our sampling of mammalian mtDNAs almost exclusively to primates (and Bos taurus) because we were particularly interested in obtaining precise comparative estimates of mutation rates and selection pressures that may otherwise become unreliable when sampling is overly sparse.
Nevertheless, an overly sparse map used in JF or SF models may fail to capture the QTL information or compromise the precision of QTL positioning because the markers are not in tight linkage to many QTL and therefore lead to omitted-variable bias.
Random effects meta-analysis is known to be overly conservative with sparse data.
Even more impressive than the unusual repertoire is the delicacy of the arrangements: two tenor voices, and either two guitars or guitar and bouzouki -- it's sparse but not overly so, and by making the most of the harmony and counterpoint they come off sounding like pared-down versions of Irish groups from the 70s such as Oisín and Planxty.
Sculpture is sparse, too.
As always in regression analyses when continuous covariates are included, care must be taken to ensure that outliers, or sparse data at the extremes of exposure, are not overly influential.
