Addon procedures are trivial in some cases, for instance that for dichotomization according to cutpoints determined from the training data (one simply uses the training-data-derived cutpoint to dichotomize the test data) or in the case of variable selection (selecting precisely those variables in the test data which were selected based on the training data).
These "legends" were selected precisely because if they died it would have no lasting effect on history.
Unsurprisingly, he is irritated when the French, who have given him the codename Farewell, send along an amateur to be his handler: a beakish bespectacled engineer (Guillaume Canet) selected precisely because he doesn't register on the KGB's radar.
Citing 500 pages of exhibits that were released on Tuesday, Mr. Levin said that WaMu had packaged and sold loans that had been selected precisely because they were likely to go delinquent, or had been identified as fraudulent, without informing investors.
But then, most of the art seems to have been selected precisely not to stand out, but to mesh with everything else, to subordinate individual effects to a never-quite-defined whole, to make a large show that feels like a small show, a group show that comes across as a single piece.
The fact that the form of the jellyfish is the result of the physics of fluids does not show that the form itself is not an adaptation the dense and amorphous properties of the jellyfish could have been selected precisely because, in water, they result in a form that has adaptive value.
These 12 were selected precisely for an inclination that most in Boston do not possess: They would be willing to sentence Tsarnaev to death.
These genes were selected precisely because of their assumed high level of stability or more precisely the stability of their lineages over long periods of time.
In contrast, the majority of mutations were predicted to cause a more modest ΔΔG effect and were selected precisely because of their predicted intermediate effects on stability.
