(of goods or property) not able to be bequeathed in a will
3. law obsolete
(of a person) not legally able to make a will
4. law obsolete
(of a person) not qualified or suitable to be a legal witness
Examples of 'untestable' in a sentence
untestable
The four-week quality audit identified 54% of samples as untestable.
Julia Driessen, Henry Limula, Oliver J. Gadabu, Gervase Gamadzi, Edwin Chitandale,Anne Ben-Smith, Noor Alide, Gerald P. Douglas 2015, 'Informatics solutions for bridging the gap between clinical and laboratory servicesin a low-resource setting', African Journal of Laboratory Medicinehttps://ajlmonline.org/index.php/ajlm/article/view/176. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, conventional clinical trials are designed to find differences in averages, and interpreting these differences depends on untestable assumptions.
Jordi Cortés, José Antonio González, María Nuncia Medina, Markus Vogler, Marta Vilaró,Matt Elmore, Stephen John Senn, Michael Campbell, Erik Cobo 2019, 'Does evidence support the high expectations placed in precision medicine? A bibliographicreview [version 4; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 3 not approved]',F1000Researchhttps://f1000research.com/articles/7-30/v4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Common methods for dealing with missing data (e.g., complete-case analysis, ignorable-likelihood methods, and nonignorable modeling methods) rely on untestable assumptions.
Zhang Nanhua, Chen Henian, Elliott Michael R. 2016, 'Nonrespondent Subsample Multiple Imputation in Two-Phase Sampling for Nonresponse',Journal of Official Statisticshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jos.2016.32.issue-3/jos-2016-0039/jos-2016-0039.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)