Sentences with phrase «minimize such errors»

However, the analysis was designed to minimize such errors, as the spatial correlation estimates are not sensitive to the absolute value but the changes in the spatial structure.

In other words, whereas consequential decisions to retain, promote, and compensate teachers based on their value - added to student achievement surely involve error, the districts we studied are using state - of - the - art value - added systems that minimize such error as much as is presently possible.

Not exact matches

«Nonlinear stage - scanning confocal microscopy is critical because it allows us to rapidly measure the nonlinear emission from thousands of different nanostructures while minimizing the potential systematic errors, such as intensity or beam pointing variations, often associated with tuning the wavelength of an ultrafast laser,» O'Brien says.

While Research Affiliates takes steps to identify data and process errors so as to minimize the potential impact of such errors on index and portfolio performance, we can not guarantee that such errors will not occur.

If the PLS method were able to minimize cross-validation based prediction error when forming each PLS component, rather than maximizing cross-covariance, then it probably would achieve a superior result (lower Spread ratio) when using all predictors simultaneously than just any one of them, but such a method would be extremely computationally demanding.

Dr. Mary Kicza, then the NESDIS Associate Administrator (the parent organization of NCDC / NCEI in NOAA), noted that these repeated errors reflected poorly on NOAA and required NCDC / NCEI to improve its software management processes so that such mistakes would be minimized in the future.

In its two Draft Reports sent to external scientific review, while IPCC mostly evaded the problem, its perfunctory assessment of the developing discrepancy between models and observations, such as it was, included major errors and misrepresentations, all tending in the direction of minimizing the issue.

CBT techniques can help individuals challenge their patterns and beliefs and replace «errors in thinking such as overgeneralizing, magnifying negatives, minimizing positives and catastrophizing» with «more realistic and effective thoughts, thus decreasing emotional distress and self - defeating behavior» or to take a more open, mindful, and aware posture toward them so as to diminish their impact.