(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.
Weald
Definition:
(n.) A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ship has joined vessels from Italy , Germany and Ireland in the international mission codenamed Operation Weald.
(2) During both of my visits to the camp I met residents who fear seeing their countryside devastated, who cannot understand why the government has given permission to drill in Lower Stumble, even though the site is located in the High Weald, designated an "area of outstanding natural eauty".
(3) According to Kent county council, the new building is an annexe of an existing girls’ grammar school, Weald of Kent in Tonbridge, and therefore legal because grammars are still allowed to expand.
(4) It was left to Sunand Prasad, president of the RIBA, to point out how such recent buildings as the Downland Gridshell and the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex by Ted Cullinan, and even the structure of Richard Rogers's Barajas airport terminal in Madrid, were shaped by elemental forms found in nature as much as the architecture admired by the prince.
(5) The long-awaited report by the British Geological Survey (BGS) concludes that "a reasonable central estimate for shale oil is 4.4bn barrels in the ground" in the Weald basin – an area which lies under Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.
(6) The energy minister Michael Fallon denied he was disappointed that the BGS report said there was no shale gas in the Weald.
(7) It’s not a place we really want to go,” said Peter Woodman, headteacher of the Weald school in Billingshurst.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Year 7 pupils at morning break time at Weald of Kent grammar school.
(9) The oil industry has known since the second world war about the traditional oil reserves in the Weald area and 13 wells are currently in production.
(10) Kent county council claims the Sevenoaks grammar would be a satellite of Weald of Kent, with the same headteacher, curriculum and philosophy.
(11) But the BGS conclusion that "there is unlikely to be any shale-gas potential" in the Weald area is a major blow to ministers' wider hopes that shale could be found throughout the country.
(12) The original proposal, for a new co-educational annexe to the Weald of Kent girls’ grammar school in Tonbridge, a full 10 miles away, was rejected by Michael Gove in 2013 and a revised single-sex proposal submitted in November 2014.
(13) A British Geological Survey (BGS) report on Friday said that the Weald basin, a Jurassic geological structure stretching from Wiltshire to Kent, between the North and South Downs, contained a large shale oil deposit.
(14) Government hopes that Britain can emulate the US by starting a shale-gas revolution have been knocked back after a long-awaited report unexpectedly concluded there was no potential in fracking for gas in the Weald region of southern England.
(15) The Weald basin includes the South Downs national park and several areas of outstanding national beauty.
(16) There is a good view across 15 miles of the Sussex Weald to Ashdown Forest.
(17) Weald of Kent already gets a lot of girls from Sevenoaks.” But for Mary Boyle, head of Knole academy, one of two all-ability schools in Sevenoaks, “an annexe is an outbuilding or a shed on the school property.
(18) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
(19) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Bower admits there are many girls from wealthy backgrounds at Weald of Kent.
(20) There are two main routes from the Weald to the proposed annexe: one along winding roads that go through the shopping centre of Sevenoaks, the other along the busy A21.