Sentence examples for straw man type from inspiring English sources
Specifically, we simulated the number of true type 1 and type 2 patients among reviewed charts for each sampling strata (straw man type 1, straw man type 2, and straw man unclassified) using multinomial distributions and probabilities estimated from the observed data.
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.
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.
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 allowed us to enrich a study population with type 1 diabetes.
General Pace's rhetoric is the type often used by the Bush administration: create a straw man, knock him down and then avoid the substance of the issue.
Ken Binmore: "Economic Man or Straw Man?
