Sentence examples for plausible number from inspiring English sources

It look as if the CSJ has just hoiked out the biggest plausible number and moved on.

John Dean, president of JD Energy, a forecasting firm based in Frederick, Md., said the industry's reported 44 percent growth in solar installations was a "plausible" number, given the sharp drop in costs, the federal investment tax credit and state renewable portfolio standards that require increasing use of renewable fuels.

For neural circuits consisting of complex cells, this suggests that, in addition to each complex cell extracting visual features, a biologically plausible number of complex cells are capable of faithfully representing visual stimuli.

"Hey, what's a big, yet plausible number to ask the government for?" "You mean the taxpayers?" "HAHAHA YES, but let's say the government so that people will feel that they are at a remove from our bullshit instead of ALL KNIT UP IN IT LIKE CRAZY because if they felt that way they might say, LET THE AUTO INDUSTRY DIE FOR ALL WE CARE".

<img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0015592.e135.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> has shown to be the most plausible number of dimensions, preserving a psychologically plausible number of items after presentations of different set sizes.

Our work also differs from that of Plate, in that, regardless of the number of items presented, the memory will only store (and subsequently retrieve) a psychologically plausible number of items.

Plug in plausible numbers in the right places, using some fancy statistics and a dose of computing power, and you can estimate how big the effects might be.Almost all these exercises deal, in effect, with changes in a number's mean or expected value (in statisticians' language, the "first moment" of its probability distribution): what if the oil price doubles?

The simplest way is to do what we are doing now -- simply calculate some plausible numbers for quotas or taxes that would presumably counteract the first-order impacts of harmful activities.

A number of theoretical observations are drawn from our computations: i) a range of plausible numbers for the dimensions of the memory, ii) a minimization of a current controversy between different 'magic number' estimates, and iii) potential empirical tests of the chunking through averaging assumption.

Based upon the following plausible numbers — 15% death or hospital admissions, 70%/30% relative size of subgroups and 20% difference in subgroup effects, it was estimated that a total sample size of 237 was necessary.

Although each of these (plus additional) conditions seem initially plausible, a number of impossibility theorems have been proved that various combinations of such desiderata cannot be jointly satisfied.