(n.) A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.
(2) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(3) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
(4) Levin, and Risch and Tibshirani, derive efficient tests for the incomplete triplet case by the methods of maximum likelihood estimator (Wald) tests and likelihood ratio tests, respectively.
(5) In our simulations, type I error alpha and the power 1-beta were close to nominal values with the TT and the average sample size was close to Wald's continuous SPRT and compared favourably with the multistage methods proposed by Herson and Fleming.
(6) Only diastolic blood pressure, initial aneurysm anteroposterior diameter, and degree of obstructive pulmonary disease were independently predictive of rupture (p less than 0.05, Wald test).
(7) The percentage of adverse events attributable to negligence increased in the categories of more severe injuries (Wald test chi 2 = 21.04, P less than 0.0001).
(8) "I think the entire bill is a massive, massive gift to the insurance industry and I'm really angry about that," said Wald, who wanted a "single payer" British-style system of government-funded care.
(9) This paper does not attempt to update Wald's meta-analysis with more recent studies.
(10) Lillian Wald established the first settlement house.
(11) The probability distribution of the time intervals of the binary sequence is obtained, and Wald's sequential hypothesis testing procedure is next employed to discriminate the arrhythmias.
(12) Elijah Wald, the author of Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerrillas, said politicians were attempting to censor artists instead of tackling Mexico's real problems.
(13) What you have seen is just a different philosophy rather than – at least this is my perception – somebody trying in the intelligence community to mislead people as to the value of the program,” Wald said.
(14) This article compares the different classes of approaches in terms of parameter interpretation and magnitude, standard errors of model parameters and Wald tests for covariate effects.
(15) All of the indexes are generalized to permit use of Wald and Lagrange multiplier statistics.
(16) Using mathematical prediction methods (Wald's sequential nonhomogeneous statistical test), a diagnostic table for predicting outcomes of cardiovascular diseases for the immediate 5 years was developed.
(17) The significant contribution of each variable in the occurrence of recurrence is studied with the Wald Test.
(18) After consecutive Wald's processing 28 signs were selected out of these 35.
(19) We settle this question by showing that, using the epidemiologically based meta-analysis technique of Wald et al.
(20) The comparative properties of the parametric tests depended on whether the population survival functions crossed, with the power of the Wald test as good as or better than the others in the common situation when the survival functions do not cross.
Waly
Definition:
(interj.) An exclamation of grief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
(2) Ahmed Wali Karzai was the head of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second biggest city, and had been the target of previous assassination attempts.
(3) Senior tribal leaders, including Karzai's powerful brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, had gathered for the funeral in keeping with the Islamic tradition of burying the dead within 24 hours.
(4) And in March the Washington Post quoted an unnamed US military official who said he had personally threatened Ahmed Wali with entering his name on a Nato list of suspects who can be legally captured or killed.
(5) For the next two years, Khakrezwal said, he and other commanders would vouch for their men and send them to Ahmed Wali, who would supply them to the Kandahar Strike Force, a paramilitary unit working in tandem with the CIA.
(6) A tribal elder in Kandahar province also confirmed the death of Ahmed Wali Karzai.
(7) "When people had problems that the governor or the police chief could not solve they came to Ahmed Wali Karzai," he said.
(8) Some foreign policy analysts have broken the silence however, most notably Steve Coll, a former journalist and respected observer of Afghanistan , who wrote last month that Ahmed Wali "is the most visible, most intractable symbol of the corruption and the corporate self-interest of the Karzai government in southern Afghanistan".
(9) "Who is capable of replacing Ahmed Wali on the provincial council?
(10) Witness Shah Wali had just stepped out of a taxi to go to the bank when the attacker struck.
(11) Al Ahram's current editor, Mamdouh al-Wali, was appointed as part of a process known as the "Brotherhoodisation" of key institutions.
(12) Ahmed Wali Karzai , the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his own house in Kandahar, according to the local chief of border police.
(13) But Ahmad Wali was assassinated in 2011, and Mahmoud has been dogged by his connection to failed the Kabul Bank scandal, leaving Qayoum the most obvious family contender to stay on in the presidential palace.
(14) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(15) Years later, Wali Muhammad, one of Ali's cornermen in Manila, acknowledged: 'After the 14th, Ali came back to the corner and told us, "Cut 'em off".
(16) His most likely successor is either the former governor Gul Agha Sherzai or Ahmed Wali's brother-in-law, Aref Noorzai.
(17) Haji Padsha, an elder of the Alikozai tribe, said Ahmed Wali Karzai had been shot on his return from a meeting with foreigners at the former house of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the fugitive leader of the Afghan Taliban.
(18) The tribal elder said Gulbadin's new commander tried to help patch up the relationship between the two men and to persuade him to go back to work for Wali.
(19) Ahmed Wali Karzai was born in the small southern Afghan town of Karz, son of a senior leader of the Popalzai tribe and well-known politician who was later killed in exile by the Taliban.
(20) Ahmed Wali Karzai , the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his house in Kandahar, raising the prospect of turmoil in a city widely seen as the key to the war in Afghanistan.