Sentence examples for propensity rather than from inspiring English sources

We'll read more of those head-shaking editorials whose implicit premise is that extremism is a broad cultural propensity rather than an ideological characteristic peculiar to one party.

The effect of the substitutions on the early stage of aggregation might be related to a decrease in hydrophobicity and β-sheet propensity rather than a lack of aromatic ring, as it was proposed for other systems [47], [48].

Altogether, combining the findings of the observation and empathy experiment, our data suggest a profound reconceptualization of psychopathy more as a reduced propensity, rather than an incapacity, to generate vicarious activations.

As matching is done on the propensity scores rather than on all the covariates, one has to check whether the matching procedure is able to balance the distribution of the chosen covariates in both the treatment and the control group.

But the dollar's fall, renewed worries about America's propensity to consume rather than save and pressing concerns over the future budgetary consequences of caring for the elderly has brought newfound currency to Mr. Peterson's dire warnings.

In supporting President Obama's economics speech, Mr. Bernstein (who served in the Obama administration) contends that buying power for the middle class is essential for economic growth, because those people have a high "marginal propensity to consume" rather than invest and save.

Michael F. Bergeron, a professor of pediatrics at the University of South Dakota and executive director of the National Youth Sports Health and Safety Institute, cautioned that chronic levels of cortisol might be a better measurement of a child's propensity toward stress, rather than the single-day measurements taken in the new study.

Moreover, the size of corresponding sets affects children's propensity to count rather than infer.

These results indicate that although trimming can improve inferences in some settings, in order to consistently improve the performance of propensity score weighting, analysts should focus on the procedures leading to the generation of weights (i.e., proper specification of the propensity score model) rather than relying on ad-hoc methods such as weight trimming.

We aimed to model active demyelinating MS plaques, which often have some propensity to remyelinate, rather than chronic MS plaques which do not.

What is lacking, however, is the glaucoma diagnosis HR adjusted for all the covariates in the propensity score model, rather than just age and sex.