Sentences with phrase «plausible model»

The founders weren't perfect, nor were their lives plausible models for every man, but they were better than that, as was the future American way of life they envisioned.

«We are trying to build more biologically plausible models that account for everything we can actually see,» he says.

Population geneticist Laurent Excoffier of the University of Bern in Switzerland agrees that Out of Africa is still the most plausible model of modern human origins, noting that the alleged admixture did not continue as moderns moved into Europe.

Their study, «Deal - Makers and Deal - Breakers: A Cognitively Plausible Model of Mate Choice,» extends well - established marketing models to develop a statistical framework others can use to study decision strategies.

Health psychology: Developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health.

They implemented this principle through the development and application of something they call the «Occam Plausibility Algorithm,» which selects the most plausible model for a given dataset and determines if the model is a valid tool for predicting tumor growth and morphology.

However, an equally plausible model can be obtained by first constructing a separate parental knowledge scale using PMDC items that measure knowledge (nine items, α =.68) and then predicting parental knowledge about the youth's adherence behavior from the remaining PMDC items that actually evaluate parental monitoring.

The influence of three plausible models of genetic and environmental influences on the relationship between phenotypes was examined over time.

A plausible model would be that issuance would be by the central bank, with distribution and transaction verification by authorised entities (which might or might not include existing financial institutions).

Janzen, who now works at the University of Pennsylvania, says he is happy that his idea has been converted into a plausible model.

These tests work are more informative with lots of classification tasks by the same raters and a plausible model of agreement, e.g. with precision and recall.

In particular, analysing the same data according to the two different paradigms leads to the conclusion either that the ensenble is «likely too narrow and not capturing the full range of plausible models» (Knutti et al) or else close to perfect (what we found).