Sentence examples for weak interval from inspiring English sources

Richardson [ 1] describes the conditions under which QALY-weights can be considered to have strong and weak interval properties.

The weak interval property simply requires that a given numerical change along a scale should have the same meaning regardless of the direction and location of that change [ 1].

Because descriptive measures lack weak interval properties, there is no guarantee that a 10 point improvement at the upper end of the scale is equivalent to a 10 point improvement at the lower end of the scale.

We face what we call the weak frequency interval detection problem of determining the smallest interval which includes all possible frequencies.

Examples of adaptations resulting from 'parallel' evolution tended to drop off with increasing phylogenetic distance, but the trend was weak (confidence intervals associated with the computed exponent overlapped zero; Fig.  2b and Additional file 1: Figure S1b).

In the toe region of subduction zones, décollements are likely to initiate within, or shift their positions to, zones of weaker stratigraphic intervals (Underwood 2007).

This weak association between interval cancers and high breast density could also have attenuated a potential adverse effect of density on survival in women with non-symptomatic cancers.

A differential in the slope might be produced by a single mechanism with a temporal decay curve that yielded strong linkage of dots at very short intervals and weak linkage at much longer intervals.

For the hetNOE [heteronuclear NOE (nuclear Overhauser effect)] experiments, H presaturation was achieved using a train of weak saturation pulse intervals during the 5-s recycle delay.

We found that the apparent effect of cholecystectomy was the strongest when it occurred 2 years or less before the cancer diagnosis, became substantially weaker when that interval was longer than 2 years, but was still statistically significant even when that interval was 20 years or more.

The agreement, disagreement, or indecision was said to be "weak" if the median interval impinged on the boundary of another zone (e.g., [1 4] or [6 8]).