Sentence examples for small but true from inspiring English sources

The use of stringent statistical tests such as correction for multiple testing and of relatively high cutoff values for the analysis of microarray data decreases the number of 'false positive' differentially expressed genes at the cost of an increased number of 'false negatives', excluding genes with small but true fold of change and relatively high variance.

However, with the consistency of the data reported in both trials, it is likely that a small but true survival difference exists in favour of cisplatin-based combinations.

For instance, the insignificant socio-economic differences in the prevalence of overweight, seen in Table 1, could in fact represent a small but true difference and thus have turned out significant given a higher power.

She sings her way through the modest but true complications of small-town life.

The sector remains small, but those true believers--pockets of enthusiastic scientists, most of them young--are working hard to commercialise HTS research and make a niche for themselves.

121 122 123 In reality, small but clinically meaningful true differences are much more likely than large differences to exist, but large trials are required to detect them.

They are unnecessary, because the numbers of potential immigrants are small (probably true, but Ms Hayter does not deal with the powerful case to the contrary made, for example, by Paul Kennedy, author of "Preparing for the 21st Century").

Halley's conception of the subterranean realm spawned a recurring theme in science fiction (Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and L. Frank Baum all set novels inside the earth), as well as a small but enduring strain of true believers.

Krautstrunk: The research community in our field--even on a European level--is quite small, but the same is true for the fleet of research aircraft in Europe.

Numerical simulations illustrate that if the positive equilibrium of the deterministic system is globally stable, then the stochastic model will preserve this nice property provided the noise is sufficiently small, but it is not true when the noise is large.

Hatzius' 0.5 prediction may seem small, but if it proves true, it could have a big impact.