Sentences with phrase «small number of cases relative»

Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the number of patents under § 101 in the second half of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very small number of cases relative to the volume of litigation in the system.

Not exact matches

The number and impact of these cases are, however, likely to be small because this type of overdiagnosis would dilute the associations and bias the relative risks toward unity.

Even small changes in relative risk can be quite substantial for diseases like malaria that kills over 1,600 per million and diarrhea that kills over 1,000 / million population — and yes, mostly children; therefore in this case even a small or «marginal» risk translates to a potentially very large number of additional deaths over baseline; this is how confusion between «relative» vs. «attributable» risk can be misleading.