Sentences with phrase «tests of reliability»

«A 12 - Item Short - Form Health Survey: Construction of Scales and Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity.»

Tools and processes that pass the tests of reliability and validity, and that are flexible enough to take different school contexts into account (leading a large suburban high school, for example, is different from leading a small rural elementary school).

The key to this failure was cheap, primitive teacher - evaluation systems that failed fundamental tests of reliability and validity and, therefore, could not allow for differential rewards for teachers.

Our report gives you 10 stocks that have stood our test of reliability.

We focus on assessing reliability against present - day climatology with rank histograms, but also investigate the effective degrees of freedom (EDoF) of the fields of variables which makes the statistical test of reliability more rigorous, and consider the distances between the observation and ensemble members.

But does their machine pass the test of reliability and scientific validity?

Not exact matches

That model formed the basis of the Myers - Briggs test, which has no scientific basis and has been shown to have poor validity and reliability, among a host of other criticisms.

He cites reliability issues and a lack of scientific credibility as key reasons he doesn't trust the psychometric test.

First there is the idea of reliability, which in psychometrics refers to whether a test produces similar results when it's given a number of times.

Theranos presented the facts to this reporter to prove the accuracy and reliability of its tests and to directly refute these false allegations, including through over 1,000 pages of statements and documents,» according to the statement.

This one used a special mixture of cement, a Dubai government statement said, and reliability tests were done in Britain and China.

Still, the eclipse will test the reliability of solar generation on a national scale, and challenge the preparedness of operators like CAISO.

After AMD's event, Intel said its Xeon line of chips «is proven and battle tested, delivering outstanding performance on a wide range of workloads and specifically designed to maximize data center performance, capabilities, reliability, and manageability.»

The exact mathematics of what goes on behind split testing reliability analysis can be read in the 20bits article Statistical Analysis and A / B Testing, or my blog article Mathematics of A / B ttesting reliability analysis can be read in the 20bits article Statistical Analysis and A / B Testing, or my blog article Mathematics of A / B tTesting, or my blog article Mathematics of A / B testingtesting.

Theranos presented the facts to this reporter to prove the accuracy and reliability of its tests and to directly refute these false allegations, including more than 1,000 pages of statements and documents.

Accreditation provides business owners, PEOs and PEO state / federal regulators with time - tested verification and financial assurance of all key areas of PEO reliability for both IRS - certified and non-certified entities.

The facility is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is a key element of NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program to maintain the reliability and safety of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without full - scale testing.

This test demonstrates to the other 40 - plus states with less autonomous friendly rules that the technology is ready to hit the road, and it shows that it can be demonstrated with some degree of reliability.

Moreover, it also offers the ease of trying out the free demo account to test its reliability and offerings.

In terms of reliability, in our testing we never experienced any outages or downtime with the platform, and there were no other reviews online indicating problems along these lines.

Correspondence, in the sense specified, is the nature of truth, the meaning of truth; yet the test of truth that we most frequently employ in connection with the past is the test of coherence: historians and archeologists have nothing available to them that is not given in the present — this book, the reliability of which must be evaluated; this artifact, the significance of which must be construed — and coherence is the final test of their theories about the past built up from the givens of the present.

But various historians, many of them «secular», have stated that based on the various tests for historic reliability, the Gospels are some of the most historically reliable documents of that time period.

Having to «believe» in the writing's of others — subjecting yourself to thei reliability of their «objective» testing, research & propositions, no?

Barring this one logically inappropriate means of testing the reliability of models, the metaphors of religion lie open to evaluation along very similar lines to the models used in the sciences to represent a subject matter that lies beyond our powers of direct inspection.

All laboratories have to follow scientific protocol for food testing and maintain high standards of accuracy, reliability and credibility in the operation of the laboratory and achieving and maintaining the required levels of accreditation and reliability together with high professional standards and discipline.

Along with SRA, we are now testing the reliability of these markers for speeding up progress in the breeding program.

As a specialist provider of proficiency services and reference materials, it also offers analytical benchmarking to more than 750 laboratories in 80 countries, providing independent assurance of accuracy and reliability in test results.

With some Savina record challengers, Garcia also questioned the reliability of the test results: «In some cases labs have discovered that the challengers» samples have been adulterated with oleoresin,» the extremely hot capsaicin extract, thus disqualifying them.

I did a lot of testing over the summer using archived material and noticed no reliability or quality issues, but given it's the offseason the demands on the system are at their lowest and the issues people complain about are unlikely to show up.

Honda is said to be worried about reliability ahead of the 2017 Formula 1 season and we're not surprised, after McLaren used at least five engines during the first test.

Renault has shown good pace and reliability over the course of the first test, though there are rumours that the car the team is running now is nothing like the one it'll use by the time the season starts.

Honda was testing a new specification engine at the Sakhir circuit in an effort to cure some of the reliability and performance issues which have plagued the team all year.

A lack of reliability isn't what you want in endurance racing (just ask Toyota), so for the 1990 Le Mans 24 Hours Jaguar replaced the V6 with the tried - and - tested 7 - litre V12 to create the XJR - 12 LM.

Hartley racked up 93 laps on a drama - free day for Toro Rosso as they pumped the first few miles into the Honda engine which suffered countless reliability issues with McLaren, especially at last year's winter testing where the team managed just 425 laps over the course of eight days.

There has been precious little evaluation of this test regarding who administers the test, reliability, and validity.

Reliability and validity of a computerized neurocognitive test battery, CNS Vital Signs.

Test - Retest Reliability of Computerized Concussion Assessment Programs.

Secondly, quantitative psychometric methods were used to field test and evaluate the acceptability, reliability and validity of this questionnaire.

For more reliability, it's clinically tested for the reduction of gas, fussiness and spit - up in babies.

A former official of the New York City medical examiner's office sued the city on Thursday, claiming that she had been forced from her job for raising questions about the office's use of a novel form of DNA testing whose reliability had come under question.

But a 16 - month investigation by the Attorney General's office — which included reviewing internal corporate communications and hundreds of thousands of subscriber speed tests — found Spectrum - Time Warner subscribers were getting dramatically short - changed on both speed and reliability.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

She also questioned the reliability of using student test scores in evaluations, something advocates and the American Statistical Association have said is not an accurate way of evaluating teachers.

The reliability of the technology remains «a bit tenuous,» Tucker said, adding that much more research, development and testing would be needed before cops could trust the weapons with lives on the line.

To test the system's reliability, Tang compared 300 real crime - scene prints and tried to match them with a database of 2,660 known prints.

The method has now been tested on a neuropeptide receptor and has been shown to be able to predict with great reliability both the effects of mutations and the receptor's ability to bind a series of different molecules.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now taking steps to restore confidence in the reliability of lab - developed tests.

One approach is taking implicit association tests to identify your personal biases (although some question the reliability and validity of the tests).

In addition, anyone with nuclear weapons duties, in any branch of service, must routinely pass a Pentagon - mandated evaluation called the Personnel Reliability Program — a battery of tests that assess several areas, including mental fitness, financial history, and physical and emotional well - being.

«Our study is the first to develop and test this important new methodology, and to demonstrate the validity and reliability of the CAM - S, a novel approach to measure delirium severity.»