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20:46 Aug 19, 2016 |
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| Selected response from: DLyons Ireland Local time: 13:42 | ||||||
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3 | The acceptance level |
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3 | acceptance ratio |
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The acceptance level Explanation: The level of acceptance in these tests may be deemed satisfactory across all systems. |
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acceptance ratio Explanation: Of the simulation vs historic. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2016-08-19 23:01:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- What seems to be happening here is that the system makes offers and some proportion of them are accepted - that's the "acceptance ratio". In that context, I'd actually go with "acceptance proportion" as being more descriptive (although "acceptance ratio" isn't wrong). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2016-08-20 06:22:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- That's helpful and a bit different from what I was envisaging. What the term seems to represent then is the proportion of regions for which the model gives an acceptable fit - and that could well be termed the "model acceptance ratio". For some regions there is no significant difference between the data output by the model and the historic data. For other regions, the difference is significant. A good model will have a high (adequada) acceptance ratio and what "high" means will be very dependent on the area under study. For messy social models researchers might be happy to achieve e.g. 40%. In the physical sciences twice that might be considered low. But the point is that this is a completely different thing from the 95% confidence level (nível de significância de 5%). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day12 hrs (2016-08-21 08:46:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- School of Engineering, TCD? -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 days19 hrs (2016-08-23 16:11:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The problem with using "acceptance level" is that this term normally refers to the p level (here 0.05). So, while it makes perfect sense in your context, readers will need to read carefully to avoid misunderstanding it. Personally, I always try to avoid having readers think :-) I'd go with "ratio" or "proportion" unless you are including the actual calculation process as described. |
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