Sentence examples for which minimisation from inspiring English sources

Several parameters need to be selected for each trial to which minimisation is to be applied.

The following year, Pocock and Simon (1975) independently presented a more general family of algorithms, called DA methods of which minimisation is one specific approach.

We solved the following optimisation problem which minimises the 2-norm of the error between model prediction and observation (least squares minimisation): (23) where p corresponds to the number of measurements.

9 25262727 Patients were randomised to intervention or control in a non-blinded fashion using a computerised telephone randomisation service which incorporated minimisation by age, sex, HADS score, severity of disease (APACHE II (acute physiology, age, and chronic health evaluation) score), ICE score, 9 and trial centre.

An alternative design to minimisation which makes use of optimum design theory is also investigated, by means of simulation, and does not appear to have any clear advantages over minimisation with a biased coin.

This recommendation is in accordance with the EU Sustainable Use Directive, which stipulates a minimisation of or ban on the use of PPPs for nature conservation areas (protection areas for birds, FFH areas) and drinking water protection areas [28].

Patients are randomised centrally by the Wales Cancer Trials Unit using the method of minimisation which includes a random element.

Taves (1974) proposed an algorithm called minimisation, which is a deterministic method to allocate patients to treatment.

The advent of greater access to computing technology has led to an increase in the usage of minimisation, which has previously been implemented relatively rarely.

Subject to our chosen criteria for model comparison, we examine the extent to which varying the minimisation parameters may influence the equalisation of prognostic factors between treatment groups.

The procedure, which required the minimisation of a Poisson deviance using the SOLVER in Excel, was run for both England and Wales and the US to calculate the risk of developing disease when colonised.