Sentence examples for straw man algorithm from inspiring English sources

The straw man algorithm allowed us to enrich a study population with type 1 diabetes.

We randomly selected 210 charts classified by the straw man algorithm for review: 70 patients classified as type 1, 60 classified as type 2, and 80 left unclassified by the straw man algorithm.

The straw man algorithm for classifying patients as type 1 versus type 2 flagged 1,095 patients as type 1 and 29,410 as type 2. The remaining patients were not classified.

Among 80 patients left unclassified by the straw man algorithm, 7 had type 1 diabetes, 65 had type 2 diabetes, 2 had gestational diabetes mellitus, 1 was being prescribed insulin but lacked sufficient data to classify diabetes type, and 5 did not have diabetes.

We started with a "straw man" algorithm designed to coarsely divide the population into pools of patients more likely to have type 1 and patients more likely to have type 2. We began with this preliminary algorithm in order to make chart reviews more efficient: type 1 diabetes is so rare compared with type 2 diabetes that random sampling of unselected patients yields very few type 1 cases.

— — *I know — straw man.

In walks the straw man".

This is a straw man.

This was no straw man.

But that argument is a straw man.

The straw man is often a woman.