Sentences with phrase «analysis accounts for differences»

2 shelf space reported in our previous analysis of Australian supermarkets [43] will differ to the results presented here as the current analysis accounts for differences in store size between countries.

Not exact matches

The analysis for this projection on wealth difference from withdrawal sequence is based on the improvement of withdrawal capability following tax efficient withdrawal sequence among multiple account types in a 10,000 - iteration Monte Carlo simulation.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

To account for this difference in their analysis, the researchers performed statistical adjustments and also assessed outcomes for separate age groups, divided into five - year intervals.

Their analysis suggests that «from the perspective of US science education and innovation policy, visa restrictions for foreign students should not be applied uniformly or on the basis of financial means; they ought to account for student - quality differences.»

Because past analyses have not accounted for hospital effects, their comparisons across SNFs did not take into account differences in the quality of care at discharging hospitals.

Adds Liu: «With metastatic cancers accounting for around 90 % of deaths from solid tumors, the hope is that one day a device that can enable the analysis of single tumor cells circulating in the blood could make a big difference in early diagnosis, detection and monitoring of numerous types of cancer, without invasive biopsies.»

Further analyses show that graft failure and mortality rates remained higher among minority groups compared to white children after accounting for differences in demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors.

Finally, the groups differed in smoking status, but this is unlikely to account for the group differences because CO levels were used as a covariate in the analysis and there were no differences in the effects of MP between marijuana abusers who smoked cigarettes and those who did not.

Overall, whilst the differences in the analyses (e.g., constant genetic vs. constant physical window - width) and in the proportion of the genome (i.e., 63.6 % vs. 30.7 %) analyzed to identify regions of low - or high recombination in the parasitoid wasp and in the honeybee may account for some of the striking differences in the estimated proportions of the genomes with low - and high recombination frequencies, our data do suggest that the recombination frequency in the honeybee is elevated across the entire genome, for regions of both low and high recombination alike.

We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

As an additional step to address any lingering concerns about Catholicism's direct influence on student achievement, we conducted both stages of our analysis again, this time accounting for the relationship between contemporary differences in the share of Catholic adherents in a country and student achievement.

More important for this analysis, adding these variables to the equation further accounts for the differences between the test scores of whites and those of blacks and Hispanics.

The regression analyses used to generate fitted values are weighted by the inverse of each observation's estimated variance to account for differences in the number of respondents from each state; unweighted regressions yield substantively similar results.

One recent analysis had to discard 75 % of its research because it had failed to account for differences between the backgrounds and academic histories of pupils attending the schools.

To account for these differences, pretest scores were used as covariates in the analyses.

To account for these differences, students» scores on the CAT pretest were used as covariates in all analyses.

The analysis also neglected to account for the difference in the compounding of interests; mortgage vs. loan.

Sandor: «The analysis also neglected to account for the difference in the compounding of interests; mortgage vs. loan.»

The analysis must be able to account for differences among basins in order to have confidence in variability or trends.

The satellite temperature record comes from a succession of different satellites and problems with inter-calibration between the satellites are important, especially NOAA - 9, which accounts for most of the difference between various analyses.

Climate - health calculations therefore use a Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) of $ 1.7 million (for 2010), which is the nominal US - based VSL of $ 7.5 million adjusted to account for carbonaceous aerosol exposure - and population - weighted country - specific income differences from prior analyses (UNEP 2011).

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First, although the within - person design of these studies helps rule out the influence of between - person differences, and although we controlled for important within - person confounds, it remains possible that other confounding factors not controlled in our analyses account for the interactive effects of HC discontinuation.

Ruling out the last factor indicates that differences in age — that is, birth order — can not account for the differences between siblings, a finding consistent with the results of a recent meta - analysis by Turkheimer and Waldron (2000).

• What would be convincing: Bear in mind that these authors argue against the usefulness of our meta - analysis by suggesting that the sex difference only emerges in one cell of what would be a 16 - cell design — the «young - age - long - term - relationship - third - party - coder - ratings - control - variables - accounted - for» cell.

We suspect that sex differences do emerge in these contexts, although there have been no large scale meta - analyses of this topic that have accounted for publication bias.

In the variable - centered approach, one typically uses component or factor analysis to obtain a limited number of parenting dimensions that account for most of the interindividual differences in frequency and / or relevance of a broad set of parenting behaviors.