Notice the precision of this statement, delivered by the host Bob Costas at the start of NBC's Saturday night prime-time Olympic show: "Even with the 12-hour time difference between Beijing and America's Eastern time zone," he said, standing in Tiananmen Square live at 8 a.m.
Also, it is very different if a diagnosis is to be made in a familiar or novel situation, or with or without help; these are examples of performance indicators or criteria adding precision to the statement of a generic skill.
In words that could be applied to himself, Thomson once described Satie's aesthetic as having valued "consequence, quietude, precision, acuteness of auditory observation, gentleness, sincerity and directness of statement".
At some cost in precision, the statement that a signal meets the criteria of pleiotropy, functional coherence and environmental responsiveness can be summarized as a claim that it has significance.
It also highlighted other methods that produced satisfactory statements of the precision of the estimates.
Providing exact statements about the precision of the time stamps and the timing of screen presentation is not possible, because multiple factors can influence this precision.
Publication of Statement of Ownership.
However, in terms of individual mortality risk prediction, the reliability and precision of both scores is limited and does not allow a precise statement about the mortality risk.
The data-set was of excellent quality, yielding low merging and refinement residuals, yet the precision of the Flack parameter is too low to enable a definitive statement to be made regarding the absolute structure (Flack & Bernardinelli, 2000 ▶).
No statements are made about the quality or precision of a point estimate.
We show that ontological representation of proved and disproved statements not only facilitates the access to the content of the papers and increases the precision of a semantical search, but also allows for an automatic generation of new statements from the ones already coded in the ontology.
