Sentences with phrase «than an appropriate comparison»

The practice must have at least one study utilizing some form of control (e.g., untreated group, placebo group, matched wait list study) establishing the practice's benefit over the placebo, or found it to be comparable to or better than an appropriate comparison practice.

Not exact matches

Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials in the home than the comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting of the child's behaviour.

«Given that pemetrexed combined with cisplatin may be less toxic than and as active as cisplatin plus paclitaxel and that it can be combined with bevacizumab, investigating the comparison of cisplatin - pemetrexed plus bevacizumab with cisplatin - paclitaxel plus bevacizumab would be the next appropriate step,» said Dr. Miller, who holds the Amy and Vernon E. Faulconer Distinguished Chair in Medical Science and the Dallas Foundation Chair in Gynecologic Oncology.

An article on September 6, 2013 at DBW seemed to feel a comparison to Netflix was more appropriate, than to the music models (where I've read there's recent challenges to improve royalties to the artists at American Idol.)

I don't tend to be bearish on China, overall, but it's long apparent the authorities have been intent on slowly pricking the property bubble... I actually think they've done a far better job than, say, the Fed (actually, not an appropriate comparison — the Fed didn't do its f**king job at all!).

Lennart - Globally the forcing will be much bigger this time around than the Eemian, but ice melting is largely a local threshold process, so comparison with the high - latitude summertime insolation during the Eemian is more appropriate in this context.

In fairness for comparison purposes, and because a reasonable estimate of climate can not be made without applying such a broad smoothing to yearly data, I do not feel it is appropriate for the figure to include a shorter term, more noisy, representation for the observations than are used to display the proxies.