Sentence examples for referenced classes from inspiring English sources

Identifying the referenced classes aim_task and aim_case gives several options.

Reference class forecasting recommended by the Flyvbjerg-Kahneman school helps but is not sufficient to improve procedures at the work face.

Nevertheless, the frequency approach, minus its dependence on infinite reference classes, was rehabilitated in the 1960s and continues to gain proponents.

Different reference classes may produce very different likelihood ratios.

Small companies or individual teams can grow proprietary reference classes whose predictive estimation power will increase over time.

Boorse (1977 , 1997 insists that the notion of normality in biomedical concepts is statistical — how things usually are in a reference class, but this view faces the problem of specifying the reference classes in an informative way.

Salmon (1977) appeals to objectively homogenous reference classes (those which cannot be partitioned by any relevant property into subclasses which differ in attribute frequency to the original reference class).

This adversarial setting makes the reference class problem more manageable as the court need only to decide which of the reference classes relied upon by the parties is to be preferred.

According to this approach, reference classes that are causally homogenous provide the proper basis for evaluating probability relations.

But for events which are unrepeatable or seldom repeatable, even the merely possible suitable reference classes will be small.

Sceptics of mathematical modelling of probative value emphasize that data from different reference classes will have different explanatory power and the choice of the reference class is open to and should be subjected to contextual argument and requires the exercise of judgment; there is no a priori way of determining the correct reference class.