Sentence examples for thin basis from inspiring English sources

Even before the woman's denial, this seemed a very thin basis on which to destroy a man's reputation.

Here is the narrator of "The Infatuations," Marías's new novel, contemplating the memory of Miguel and Luisa, the husband and wife she grew to think of as the Perfect Couple, if only on the thin basis of observing them have breakfast each morning in the same cafe: "They became almost obligatory.

But even if you think Obama is even worse than Bush, that's a pretty thin basis on which to believe in the Republican small government brand.

Memorizing bible verses, indulging in a little pamphlet theology, going to hear your dad preach, and then rolling that together into a giant fundamentalist bouillabaisse is an exceedingly thin basis for being recognized as a hermeneutical expert in scripture.

Structured spatial effects can be modelled via a Gaussian Markov random field, i.e. spatially correlated random effects are estimated for discrete spatial units (Kammann and Wand 2003) or via 2-dimensional surface fitting by applying specific generalized additive models based on e.g. penalized regression splines with thin plate basis (Wahba 1990; Wood 2006a).

Inhomogeneities in modified Helmholtz equations are approximated with the thin plated radial basis functions.

The implicit surface is defined by a combination of the well-known thin plate radial basis functions (RBFs) using the domain decomposition method (DDM).

cDairy producers could also manage their own profit margin risk using bundles of milk and feed futures and options but this has disadvantages including lumpy contracts, thin markets and basis risk (Bozic et al. 2012).