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Vareisen Posted 15 years ago
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Simular accurate make sense in the setence?

example: Methods yeld similar accurate results.
  

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Hi Yes that is broadly OK The word 'similar' needs to relate back to something (and yield has an 'i' in it').. - The xyz procedure gives us a very good estimate of the size. Other methods yield similar accurate results Regards, Dave

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  • Hi Yes that is broadly OK The word 'similar' needs to relate back to something (and yield has an 'i' in it')..
  • - The xyz procedure gives us a very good estimate of the size.
  • Other methods yield similar accurate results Regards, Dave
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Hi

Yes that is broadly OK

The word 'similar' needs to relate back to something (and yield has an 'i' in it')..

- The xyz procedure gives us a very good estimate of the size. Other methods yield similar accurate results

Regards, Dave
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Hi,

I think you probably mean 'similarly accurate results'.

In other words, it is really the accuracy that is similar, not necessarily the results.

Clive
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Hi

I thought of that, but in the given sentence I wasn't sure that the -ly was required. I understood the results to be both similar and accurate: they are similar, accurate results (maybe a comma is needed)

But, yes, if we are testing xyz with one set of data and then the other methods with different data then the results, we hope, will be similarly accurate. Also, you definit
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