What's the difference between glim and lantern?

Glim


Definition:

  • (n.) Brightness; splendor.
  • (n.) A light or candle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generalized linear interactive modeling (GLIM) technique used at TRRL has stricter assumptions, but is better suited for model testing.
  • (2) In this analysis, poisson regression models were fit using the statistical program GLIM (Generalized Linear Models) to determine the separate effects of age, period of death, and birth cohort on the specific cancers of interest (lung, liver, bladder, CNS, leukemia, lympho-reticulosarcoma, all cancers).
  • (3) This paper presents a simple Statistical Analysis System (SAS) program for the generation of such data in a form that can be read directly by GLIM and used in a Poisson regression analysis.
  • (4) The models were fitted by the GLIM system assuming a Poisson error function.
  • (5) The necessary calculations are easily performed in the statistical computer program package GLIM, and the necessary commands are noted.
  • (6) The spreading behavior of adherent platelets was analyzed using generalized linear interactive modeling (GLIM).
  • (7) Analysis of screen-detected and interval cancer data by means of statistical modelling using GLIM allowed us to estimate the mean sojourn time (1.91 and 3.97 years in 40-49 and 50-69 year old women respectively), sensitivity (about 90% for those aged 50-69) and predictive value at the prevalence screening test (about 100%).
  • (8) To this end, loglineal (Poisson regression) models were constructed of the IC mortality rates for both sexes, using the GLIM package, in which the regression coefficients are the natural Relative Risk (RR) logarithms of the various age groups (35-74 years), period of death (1970-1985) and birth cohort (1985-1960) with respect to the reference group mortality, controlled by the effect of other groups.
  • (9) Variable results on a particular bioassay exhibited by extracts from different colonies of a given species were analysed by the Generalized Linear Interactive Modelling system (GLIM).
  • (10) In particular, it is argued that classical methods as implemented in the computer package GLIM can be used as approximations to Bayesian methods, particularly at the initial stage of model selection.
  • (11) The bootstrap can be used in many statistical packages such as MINITAB, SPSS, SAS, BMDP, or GLIM, all of which are widely available, and could be useful in other areas of the pharmaceutical sciences where regression analysis is employed.
  • (12) In this report we present an accurate statistical approach using the Generalized Linear Interactive Modeling (GLIM) computer package developed by the Numerical Algorithms Group, Oxford, U.K.
  • (13) A piecewise exponential model is used to model relative risks of delivery associated with a previous spontaneous abortion and a model incorporating digit preference is fitted as a generalized bilinear model in GLIM.
  • (14) A log linear model was fitted using GLIM, assuming Poisson errors in incidence; linear and non-linear regression techniques were also used.
  • (15) Data on cycles to pregnancy can be used to estimate the beta parameters by maximum likelihood in a straightforward manner with a package such as GLIM.
  • (16) In this form, convergence to the least-squares estimates using the Gauss-Newton method [see Kennedy & Gentle (1980) Statistical Computing, Marcel Dekker, New York] is virtually ensured, or, as the model in this form is a member of the class of 'generalized linear models', it may be fitted by packages such as those of Rothamsted Experimental Station [(1977) GENSTAT (A General Statistical Program), Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden] and the Numerical Algorithms Group [(1978) GLIM (Generalised Linear Interactive Modeling), Numerical Algorithms Group, Oxford].
  • (17) As the two groups were not balanced despite randomization, multivariate methods (GLIM) were used to identify significant prognostic factors.
  • (18) A generalized log linear model was fitted to the data using the statistical package GLIM, confirming a significant trend for labelled cells to occupy higher sites in the oxyntic gland as the time since labelling of cells increased.
  • (19) A method, using the GLIM computer package, for determining primary and secondary HLA associations with disease is described and is applied to data from patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
  • (20) The statistical significance of temporal, age, sex, and seasonal variations in incidence rates was ascertained by Poisson regression models (GLIM statistical software).

Lantern


Definition:

  • (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
  • (n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
  • (n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
  • (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
  • (n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • (n.) See Aristotle's lantern.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (2) Rio 2016 spokesman, Philip Wilkinson, explained there is a back-up of eight lanterns.
  • (3) The trip is a contrast in streetscapes: the former is best known for the Rainbow Bridge and the space-age headquarters of Fuji TV, the latter a wonderfully disorderly collection of narrow streets, old buildings and Sensoji Temple , instantly recognisable by the huge akachochin red lantern marking its entrance.
  • (4) The cases of seven adults who ingested jack o'lantern mushrooms are presented.
  • (5) The outcome of the plate test does not give evidence of the subject's lantern test performance.
  • (6) It has also swung a lantern over forbidden terrain: Jones’s personal beliefs.
  • (7) Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
  • (8) That’s an innovative way to fund.” Much of the existing renewables provision in refugee camps – clean cookstoves and solar lanterns – is donated by NGOs and social enterprises on a small scale.
  • (9) The library was built as a "lantern for learning"; McElheny has used the moving images and illumination as central motifs.
  • (10) Already, solar lanterns and solar photovoltaic panels are bringing electricity to millions of Indians who have remained in the dark for generations.
  • (11) Male candidates (1020) for employment in occupations that required discrimination of colour were subjected to the Ishihara test and two trade tests of colour perception, the Giles Archer Lantern test and the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) wire test.
  • (12) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
  • (13) Earlier this year, the North called US secretary of state John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean president Park Geun-hye a prostitute.
  • (14) British forces successfully dropped water and rechargeable solar lanterns to the besieged Yazidi refugees earlier on Tuesday.
  • (15) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
  • (16) Around the city’s West Lake, a leafy tourist district where many of the G20’s leaders will sleep, red Chinese lanterns and Christmas lights hang from plane trees outside Ferrari and Aston Martin showrooms.
  • (17) A statement from DC and Warner Bros said: “In a massive expansion of the Studio’s DC Entertainment-branded content, Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema will release a slate of at least 10 movies – as well as standalone Batman and Superman films – from 2016 through 2020 that expands this prized universe of characters: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder (2016) Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer (2016) Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot (2017) Justice League Part One, directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017) The Flash, starring Ezra Miller (2018) Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa (2018) Shazam (2019) Justice League Part Two, directed by Zack Snyder (2019) Cyborg, starring Ray Fisher (2020) Green Lantern (2020) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, is being released by Marvel next year.
  • (18) Sirens in the harbour will sound and 32 lanterns will be released into the sky.
  • (19) He certainly gave Green Lantern everything, doing as many of his own stunts as he could and ending up with a separated shoulder and in need of two minor operations.
  • (20) Instead of announcing Justice League for two years' time in a knee-jerk reaction to the success of The Avengers, why not turn that film into a Batman and Superman movie, while replacing Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern with someone more suitable and developing decent standalone takes on Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Flash (the Martian Manhunter can turn up in a post-credits scene or something)?

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