observed outcome

collocation in English

meaningsofobserveandoutcome

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observe
verb[T]
uk
/əbˈzɜːv/
us
/əbˈzɝːv/
formal
to watch carefully the way something happens or the way someone does something, especially in order to learn more ...
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outcome
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
us
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
a result or effect of an action, ...
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Depending upon the particular timing of these two streams of activity (strolling man, falling tile) theobservedoutcomewill be radically different.
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For example, theobservedoutcomein a futility trial may be defined as the proportion of treated patients who fail treatment (ptx).
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This model should make predictions about the conditions under which theobservedoutcomeis likely to be reached.
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The numerator corresponds to the maximum likelihood of anobservedoutcomeunder the null hypothesis.
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The task is to conclude the unknown value of the measurand from theobservedoutcomeof the measurement process.
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In one stage, the distribution of theobservedoutcomeis represented in a fairly standard way using one or more parameters.
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The denominator corresponds to the maximum likelihood of anobservedoutcomevarying parameters over the whole parameter space.
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Sophisticated studies of panel data that allow researchers to correlate individual characteristics with observed outcomes also rely upon inference.
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This has prevented an evaluation of whether observed outcomes are specific to violence exposure or merely reflect effects of cumulative stressors.
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Thus, the variability of results is taken as a proxy of the responsibility of a particular policy for observed outcomes.
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In addition, the simulation models demonstrated that our observed outcomes were common in a random sampling design.
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Binomial or binary logistic regression deals with situations in which theobservedoutcomefor a dependent variable can have only two possible types (for example, dead vs. alive).
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We argue that there is a potentially significant disjuncture between the sponsors' expectations of the judicial reforms' economic impact and the observed outcomes.
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It has been argued that case series cannot be used to assess effectiveness as it is impossible to attribute observed outcomes to treatment.
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When results under the same policy vary greatly across time and space, the perception that policy is not responsible for observed outcomes makes sense.
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Here the long run is an arbitrarily large number of time periods such that the distributions of observed outcomes for all assets match their ex ante probability distributions.
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Indicators of technology, like those of population, are also the observed outcomes of a number of widely dispersed decisions by individual actors such as developers, inventors, scientists, investors, manufacturers, etc.
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