Sentences with phrase «half of the comparison group»

When compared with patients who were cooled immediately after arrival in the emergency room, the patients who were chilled sooner fared worse: Twenty - six percent experienced a second cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital, compared with 21 percent of the comparison group.

Some 17,478 of those diagnosed with atrial fibrillation had lost their partner as had 168,940 of the comparison group.

Half of the comparison group had a normal body mass index (BMI) of 25 or less; and half had a high BMI of 28 or more.

The perfor - mance of the comparison group was computed as the aver - age of those 25 countries.

The award - receiving group is a percentage of that comparison group, and it is not affected by the test scores in another subject.

The study showed that «Explore Learning members» improvement in maths was 30 % higher than that of the comparison group after controlling for gender, age, year group and special educational needs.»

If not, was their progress at least equal to the gain of 40 percent of the comparison group?

Dick Shultz makes some interesting comments about our study, the main criticism apparently being the lack of a comparison group, and Dick makes some suggestions for how alternative «controls» could have been created.

The effect size of this difference is.81 and was computed by subtracting the mean of the comparison group from the mean of the experimental group and dividing by the standard deviation of the comparison group (Cohen 1977).

Overall, the RDX is the most agile of the comparison group, with the Q5 somewhat behind in terms of driving enjoyment.

The paper's conclusion that being a visible minority does not act as a barrier is likely premature and largely untested given the respective demographics of the school and the lack of comparison groups from other schools.

Contrast was at the low end of our comparison group (particularly the Surface Book 2 13, which is a standout performer here), and color gamut support was just average.

Here, the HP lasted for a very strong 14 hours and 18 minutes, beating out the Yoga 920 and blowing away the rest of the comparison group.

This dilution of the comparison group is likely to bias the findings towards the null.

In addition, due to the frequency matching of the comparison group to the exposed cohort, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous estimates could be calculated.

Demographics and respiratory characteristics of comparison groups at initial evaluation for designation of air pollution victim status

Given the methodologic limits, including lack of clearly defined intervention characteristics, lack of a comparison group, retrospective collection, and lack of key measures for certain children at certain times, the intervention results were limited.

Limitations include nonrandomization of participants in all 3 studies, lack of comparison group in Study 1, and length of follow - up.

However, the increase in the intervention group (0.38 points per year) was significantly lower than the increase of the comparison group (1.83 points per year).

Limitations include the absence of a comparison group.

Limitations include the lack of randomization of participants and the limited use of a comparison group.

Limitations include children did not meet diagnosis of anxiety disorder, small sample size, lack of comparison group, and length of follow - up.

Limitations include small sample size, lack of comparison group for follow - up, reliance on self - reported measures, and limited generalizability due to ethnicity of participants.

Limitations included lack of comparison group and possible bias due to self - selection into the program.

Limitations include lack of randomization, lack of comparison group, lack of follow - up, and small sample size.

Limitations include reliance on self - reported measures, lack of comparison group at follow - up, small sample size and generalizability due to ethnicity.

Limitations include nonrandomization of subjects, lack of a comparison group, and lack of examination of possible nesting factors due to the multiple sites and therapists.

Limitations include the small sample size, the lack of a comparison group, and a comparatively small number of male adolescents who participated in the treatment.

Limitations include possible interviewer bias, the very low total dose of TARGET treatment received by the TARGET group, alternations in the randomization procedures during the study, and contamination of the comparison group treatment with TARGET principles and techniques.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management.

It is important to note that the approach that we are describing here for outcome - based continuous program improvement does not strive to achieve a high level of scientific rigor that would involve the use of comparison groups or other strategies to determine whether the mental health services and consultation «caused» specific outcomes.

A major problem for the evaluation was the lack of a comparison group, or baseline data, to measure what would have happened in the absence of income management... the overall evidence about the effectiveness of income management in isolation from other NTER measures was difficult to assess... The evaluation findings would have greater strength if these views were supplemented by empirical indicators that showed evidence of the changes reported by the various stakeholders.

Previous evaluations of the Home - Start program (Barnes et al. 2006; Frost et al. 2000) suffer from methodological problems such as lack of a comparison group, and the sole reliance on parental self - reports as a source of information.

Sibling behaviour problem scores were similar to those of a comparison group of normal children and significantly different from those of a comparison group of psychiatrically referred children.

Not exact matches

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

Continuing with the dog food example, we can see that ratings, comparison, and reviews all were all grouped as closely related to dog food in general, implying that people that are searching for dog food are very interested in the comparison and review side of things.

Based on a comparison of the change in subjective well - being of these people and of people from the control group who had no change in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding in terms of higher life satisfaction.

The Dun & Bradstreet comparison group showed revenue growth of 6.2 percent.

It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate of employment growth measure in a comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.

By comparison, in 1989, this group on average had equity equal to 81 % of their house price, meaning that many could look forward to a retirement in which their mortgage was already paid off.

Millennials are savvy shoppers and many have come of age in a post-recession era, and our our research shows that this group routinely comparison shops on mobile to get the best value and shopping experience.

As a point of comparison, the researchers also included a group of participants who had posters randomly assigned to them.

For its June 2007 meeting, the HRC asked F.W. Cook's designated representative, George B. Paulin, to report on, and respond to HRC members» questions regarding a range of executive compensation matters, including the Company's compensation program and current trends, a comparison of Company and Peer Group compensation amounts and structures, including stock option and restricted stock grant practices, recent stockholder initiatives on compensation, compensation committee procedures, the role of consultants, and regulatory activity.

F.W. Cook also advises the HRC on the reasonableness of compensation levels in comparison with those of the Peer Group, and on the appropriateness of compensation program structure in supporting the Company's business objectives.

F.W. Cook compiles compensation data for the financial services organizations the HRC considers our peers (Peer Group), and reviews with the HRC the Company's executive compensation programs generally and in comparison to those of the Peer Group.

Once again, we tap into Zillow Group's wealth of data and use a data set that includes mortgage affordability, rental affordability, and price - to - income ratios for the five most populous US cities with comparison to the national median.

This is in comparison with our Company's peer, UPS, which scored 94.3 and placed in the top tier of the group.

The connected customer is the stranger you must get to know as in comparison to the customers of the past, this group is only growing and it's traversing demographics.

By way of comparison, industry giant Blackstone Group has $ 266 billion of AUM, Carlyle Group has $ 185 billion of AUM, and KKR has $ 94 billion of AUM as of Dec. 31, 2013.

Coworking also «wins hands down» in terms of budget and ease of management for FinTechs, according to Ian Wright, founder at merchant comparison site Merchant Machine, who said: «The added benefits to FinTechs are that many of your potential customers may also work in the same building / coworking group as you.»