As to whether existing methods of predictive policing work as advertised, by forecasting the likelihood of crime, the evidence is scarce, and the few data points are not encouraging.
Zavaleta (1999) noted that Indigenous hunters who practice waste avoidance reduce the likelihood of hunger when food is scarce, and also minimize the number of harvested animals necessary to meet the needs of hunter and community.
It can be seen as improving the likelihood of all claimants receiving some absolutely scarce and indivisible resource, and reducing the chance that some receive more than one while others still wait.
Although epidemiology of AMI has been described previously in large patient series, 7 9 12 16 studies on epidemiology of myocarditis are scarce, 13 and there are no estimations available for likelihood of AMI versus acute myocarditis in different population segments.
Of concern is that this score relies in part on subjective assessment of likelihood of ACS for which inter-rater data are scarce.
So did the likelihood of my losing the trail, since the signposting was scarcer and the forest paths proved confusing.
Especially when data are scarce, the BBGP approach leads to much higher accuracy than standard maximum likelihood estimation of noise variances.
As millennials preparing to enter a work force where jobs are both low paid and scarce with a lingering burden of student loan debt, there is a strong likelihood that we will not have the same prosperity as prior generations.
Competing for scarce funds with a myriad of other money-strapped domestic agencies, the civilian science agencies face the likelihood of budget cuts, some quite substantial.
Precipitation data are scarce in Afghanistan, but regional data show a long-term trend of decreased snow cover, and therefore strong likelihood of decreased aquifer recharge.
This reduced the likelihood that children would be coming home to healthy, home-cooked meals as time became an increasingly scarce commodity.
