Sentence examples for unequal costs from inspiring English sources

Yet if parity begins as an issue of unequal costs for some, it quickly becomes a debate about increased costs shared by all.

This could be explained by the unequal costs of inappropriate responses (Godfrey-Smith 1991).

Our algorithms can be applied for any cost matrix that may contain unequal substitution costs of transforming between different characters along different edges of the network.

The paper studies the new learning technique called cost-sensitive case-based reasoning (CSCBR) incorporating unequal misclassification cost into CBR model.

Now, against a background of spiralling costs, unequal payments to teams, falling crowds and TV audiences, as well as declining sponsorship and no agreement about capping costs, the sport has reached the point of no return.

International cooperation is, however, needed to overcome initialization costs, unequal access to monitoring technologies and know-how.

European state-funded healthcare services vary by country but in France Kry says the government is implementing a national system for public reimbursement of digital healthcare consultations via video — "in light of unequal access, increasing costs and over-usage of emergency services".

The non-participation of Fulani women on the Plateau in decision-making activities and limited or lack of any social interaction with their 'indigenes' counterparts could result in gender unequal sharing in costs and benefits relevant to the agency of women (Agarwal, 2000).

We use AUC as a measure of classification performance as it is insensitive to both skewed class distributions and unequal classification error costs [31] while it is not limited by a specific threshold for the classification of the data, thus enabling a better exploration of the ranking capabilities of the naive Bayes classifier [30].

ROC graphs describe the relationship between sensitivity (true positive rate or power) and 1-specificity (false positive rate or type I error rate) of a classification method and are not influenced by skewed class distribution or unequal classification error costs (Fawcett 2006).

Failings of deregulation are found to center around the following problems: high set-up cost; complicated market design; inevitable spot price volatility; market power abuse; inefficient investment; difficulty in reducing generation cost; dysfunctional input markets; stranded cost; unequal distribution of benefits.