"set the proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to express an action where the size or amount of one object is relative to the size or amount of another object. For example, "We need to set the proportion of blueberries to flour to two parts of flour to one part of blueberries."
Nationwide, a study released two weeks ago by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control set the proportion of patients accepting a chaplain's care at 72percentt in one sampling, as compared with the 59percentt another group found in 2000.
We set the proportion of the common time change to 0.25 with a variance rate of the common time change at 3 while the independent components have a variance rate of unity.
Unless otherwise specified, we set the proportion to be equal to 30%.
We thus set the proportion of causative variants f = 0.2 [31].
Unless otherwise specified, we set the proportion explained by the causal site to 1% for all simulations under alternative hypothesis.
We set the proportion of the population sampled to the average annual recapture probability [0.90±0.02, 25].
Since only the proportions were known for radiographic technicians (Soundchec 1 study), we set the proportions for IHC physicians, IHC nurses and medical specialists by expert opinion (Table 3).
For almost all parameter sets the proportion of CI overestimates (when the lower bound of the CI exceeds the true k) is greater than 5%, sometimes substantially so.
For all parameter sets the proportion of CI underestimates (when the upper bound of the CI is below the true k) is less than 5%.
Indeed, for most parameter sets the proportion of CI overestimates increases with higher n, as the sampling distribution narrows around the biased value.
In our setting the proportion of German cases caused by foreign-born cases was estimated at 18.3%9595% CI: 8.3 - 28.3%).
