Sentence examples for proportion known as from inspiring English sources

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said that increasing that proportion, known as the medical-loss ratio, was "one of the most important consumer protection provisions" of the new law, and he has denounced efforts to water it down.

However, log transform of the proportion ratios, i.e., (loge (proportion/1 – proportion) – known as logit values – provides corrected data that are normally distributed.

The Parthenon often is said to follow the proportions known as the "golden ratio".

Another important component of model accuracy is agreement between predicted probabilities and observed proportions, known as calibration, which allows a model's prognostic ability to be evaluated [ 5].

The proportion of skeletal elements found was compared with the proportion known in a complete fish.

In 1794 Joseph-Louis Proust of France published his law of definite proportions (also known as Proust's law).

Stranger still, two floors above the ticket office (up yet more scaffolding) was a generously proportioned room known as the 'badminton court.' During its excavation the builders came across lino with a badminton court marked out – last used by drivers during their 'R and R' in the 19th Century.

With cumulative proportion models (also known as proportional odds models), where j is the category number (either 0, 1 or 2 in the current study), the exponential of the model slope coefficient estimates the odds of being in category j or higher, relative to being in a lower category.

There is hysterical emphasis today on preventing the abuse of the system by a tiny proportion of fraudsters (known as scroungers).

Patients with the mental illness, which affects about one in every 100 people, had a higher proportion of mutations known as copy number variations in the genes involved with exciting or inhibiting the synapses between brain cells, the researchers report.

Alternatively, wild strains may actively down-regulate expression in proportion to gene dose, known as dosage compensation.