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The size of the partial adjustment

 

In the same way that we can evaluate a size and an expected size for any general adjustment, we can also evaluate a size and an expected size for a partial adjustment. For our example, the sizes and size ratios for the full adjustment; the partial adjustment; and the simple adjustment by tex2html_wrap_inline8546 only are shown in figure 2.

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Figure 2:  Sizes for the adjustments tex2html_wrap_inline8546 and tex2html_wrap_inline8548

The size ratio for the overall adjustment is roughly tex2html_wrap_inline9402 , and the size ratio for the simple adjustment by tex2html_wrap_inline8546 is tex2html_wrap_inline9406 , neither being surprising values. However the size ratio for the partial adjustment is tex2html_wrap_inline9408 , nearly four times more than expected and suggesting an inconsistency between prior specification and data for the additional adjustment by tex2html_wrap_inline8550 .



David Wooff
Thu Oct 15 12:20:04 BST 1998