However, models with high numbers of variables and high explanatory power would be needed to help healthcare policy strategists to perfect interventions and pharmaceutical companies to optimise marketing budgets.
As a congressman, he insisted on Congress's "perfect non-intervention" with slavery in the territories.
Although there are many tasks where output strings are automatically generated from a set of evidence, they are not perfect and human intervention is often required to correct the result.
Using natural language processing (NLP) technologies to convert the text format of eligibility criteria to a computer or to extract patient identifications from EMRs is far from perfect without human intervention.
Whilst none of the programmes were a perfect match for our intervention goals, they did demonstrate the potential effectiveness of brief interventions for violence prevention at both cognitive and behavioural levels.
There is no perfect formula for military intervention.
At a divinely perfect time for an intervention, my college friend Jeff, who lived a supremely happy and green life in Oregon with his wife and kids, suggested I take improvisation classes at The Second City, the legendary comedy school and theater located in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.
In such cases, a pragmatic position should be taken, whereby one tries to refine the middle range theory as much as practically possible, with the explicit aim of providing options for improvement rather than reaching a perfect understanding of the intervention as such [ 56, 79].
In essence, MSM seeks to emulate an ideal randomized trial with perfect compliance with exposure interventions of interest and no loss to follow-up.
Hong Kong's way has by no means been synonymous with perfect competition.Yet as state intervention grew elsewhere, especially after the second world war, Hong Kong remained free of controls on prices, wages and imports, of regulation of business and employment and, in Friedman's words, of officials' instinct "to spend other people's money and meddle in other people's affairs".
