Example sentences for: numerator

How can you use “numerator” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The index is based on comparing each child with every other child in the population (thus the sum of the differences in the numerator), and gives a large weight to the best and worst off (the differences are raised to the power of three).

  • Conventional cancer incidence rates contain new cases of the disease for a given year in the numerator and the mid-year population in the denominator [ 1 ] . However, this rate is potentially problematic for those cancers in which the denominator includes cases not at-risk of developing the disease [ 2 ] . For example, a large portion of the female population will undergo a hysterectomy in their lifetime [ 2 3 4 ] , removing them from being at risk of developing corpus uterine cancer.

  • This means that during a strong stock market, the numerator (tax revenues) will shoot up, but the denominator (GDP) will not.

  • Exact 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for rates by assuming the numerator to be a Poisson variable [ 23 ] and for rate ratios using a modified binomial model [ 24 ] . Adjusted rate ratios for comparisons among groups defined by demographic variables were calculated by using a Mantel-Haenszel type estimator for incidence-rate data with approximate 95% confidence limits based on the tests [ 23 ] .

  • In the expression for γ, the numerator is the 'residual vector', the part of the x


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