Sentence examples for propensity because from inspiring English sources

Glycine residues display low helix-forming propensity because their high conformational flexibility is entropically unfavourable within geometrically constrained α-helical structures [ 37, 38].

19As we will explain in the next section, we were not able to include all of these variables in the propensity score because the number of observations drops substantially.

The Saps II score was not used to compute the propensity score because some patients were under the age of 16 and had an invalid Saps II score.

The FLIPI risk group was not used to calculate the propensity score because individual FLIPI components were used in the model.

One suggestion is that the matching should begin with the exposed subject with the highest propensity score, because it will be most difficult to find a match for this subject (14).

We used calipers of width equal to 0.2 of the standard deviation of the logit of the propensity score, because this caliper width has been found to be optimal under a variety of scenarios [ 32].

The multiple imputation analyses are not presented as the main analyses as it was technically impossible to perform an imputation without comprehensive manipulation of the data, such as redefinition of the continuous variables into binary or ordinary variables and exclusion of the variable "academic problems" (important to calculate the propensity score) because of collinearity.

Solid timber cut from this part of the tree will inevitably have low stiffness because of low density and high MFA, and a high propensity to twist because of high spiral grain (Cown et al. [2010]), so will be unsuitable for many appearance and structural applications.

But not only do you know the guy killed this kid, because he admitted to it, you knew that he has a propensity for violence because of his past record".

He had wanted to make design changes, he said, "to reduce the propensity for rollover" because it "was a safety factor".

To the extent that minimum wages reduce employment of people who would otherwise earn a wage less than the minimum, the minimum wage increases of 2007, 2008 and 2009 may be another factor, because propensity to earn near the minimum wage tends to decline with age (although that propensity is not particularly low for the elderly, who do not have work-hours losses on average).