type of comparison

A term of art used in clinical trials that parse treatment/control arms into groups (safety, efficacy, PK/PD) for comparing data from other studies or sources (e.g., historical control).

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In other words, a fit between the form of self-construal and the type of comparison standard would increase the effectiveness of the type of evoked comparison standard on activated goal pursuit.

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He added, "We also know that applying this type of comparison would be impossible without the willing cooperation of the LOS providers themselves, so we look forward to engaging with vendors on this project as well.

STRATMOR to launch LOS-comparison tool

The second type of comparison, an interpreting-significance kind of comparative investigation, could focus, for example, on an examination of the importance of college education as a measure of life accomplishment and success among children of Jewish immigrants (of the same country/regional provenance who arrived in the United States in the same time period) in different locations, or among Jews and members of other comparable groups in the same place.

How Deborah Dash Moore's at home in America: led me to study small-town Jewish life

observation time], number of exposures to the name-object relation, number of unknown words used, distribution of the words throughout the procedure, and number and type of comparison stimuli available, and so on).

Learning name-object relations after a single exclusion trial in 18- to 48-month-old children

The two and a half decades since Slovenia gained its independence will also be presented through figures and statistics, as this type of comparison often gives us a true picture of the path behind us while serving as motivation to make further changes and improvements in the future.

Slovenia : 25th anniversary of Slovenias independence: from the plebiscite to the constitution

Wampold, Lichtenberg, and Waehler (2002) expanded this framework by including deliberations related to the degree of specificity, utility of multiple type of comparison groups, treatment component analysis, broad assessment, methods for consolidating results across studies, and viability of interventions from one community to the next.

Special issue editor's introduction: using single-case research designs to demonstrate evidence for counseling practices

Even if this type of comparison is impractical, pulmonary function laboratories and others performing spirometry should look carefully at the robustness of the NHANES III reference set.

Which reference set for spirometry?

To draw any type of comparison between the events of the Holocaust with the debate about the UK's nuclear deterrent seemed crass - and condemnation quickly followed.

Trident is a matter of life and death; COMMENT

The significant differences observed in maternal antibody negative (ab-) chickens were not significant in maternal antibody positive (ab+) chickens, demonstrating the requirement of ab- birds for this type of comparison.

Avian Dis.: Correlation between Marek's disease virus pathotype and replication

The same type of comparison must be made for other important goals, such as improving the quality of education -- a surprisingly difficult objective to achieve, as many developed countries have learned from their poor performance in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's international assessment.

If universal education is difficult, pursue more realistic aims

Which type of comparison do you assume is most compelling to your customer base:

The one comparison that compels

Similarly, in science and engineering, we are often faced with another type of comparison, i.

Comparisons of means and variances: how we can determine whether there is a difference between groups of data