Sentence examples for testable assumptions from inspiring English sources

The approach yields two identification strategies, each based on transparent and testable assumptions.

In principle, we would take the view suggested by Scott et al. (2013) that clinical staging of bipolar disorder is a model with testable assumptions that require further study.

The computational nature of these models makes it easy to analyse very small effects and thus provides an empirical foundation for theoretical analyses that otherwise have to make many non testable assumptions.

However, because (t=0) is not a testable assumption, it was necessary to choose small values (t>0.000) for the respective (chi ^2 -calculations.

Consequently, rather than as a hard-and-fast rule, LIB may be better thought of as a context-dependent and testable assumption.

Beginning with the most basic elements of risks associated with individual decision options (performance characteristics of clinical options), NDM requires a critically operational, but ultimately testable, assumption of conditional independence among successive clinical options.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06808.028 > A final testable assumption of our model is that branching is locally suppressed at the base of the gametophore, expressed as a local reduction in T in our model.

Longford (2005) acknowledges that this approach is based on un-testable assumptions and therefore proposes to conduct a sensitivity analysis.

Differences in the number of non-returned QOL questionnaires at 12 month follow-up (32% telephone group vs. 12% face-to-face group) mean that the main findings are subject to non-testable assumptions about missing QOL data from these "non-responders".

This non-testable assumption requires the observation of all variables that determine selection into the programme as well as the outcome in the case of non-participation.

It was a decision based on the mistaken -- and easily testable -- assumption that anthrax could not escape a sealed envelope.