Another important difference is the new study's refined method of
accounting for differences among drivers and for vehicle differences besides the presence or absence of side airbags.
Comparing students who are placed in and out of remediation, while
also accounting for differences in background characteristics, Long found positive overall effects for students who took the remedial courses.
That is, assessing programs with value - added measures is easier than it is with test scores alone because the value - added
measures account for differences in the students that teachers teach.
Not
properly accounting for differences between business owners and non business owners in studies of household wealth can lead to erroneous conclusions about the significance of different saving motives.
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.
The failure of individuals with lower intelligence to find and follow an optimal strategy and appropriately estimate the future consequences of their
actions accounted for the difference in outcomes.
Third, the current formula does not
adequately account for differences in education costs across districts or across states, as they use current state expenditures to measure costs.
A considerable gap in access to selective colleges and universities persists even
after accounting for differences in academic performance as measured by grades or standardized tests.
People never receiving food stamps had lower rates of obesity than those who had been on them at some point in their lives, even after
accounting for differences in socioeconomic status.
We've known that they couldn't all be perfectly round, but this study demonstrates you can use these derived values and improve predictions for more accurate models
by accounting for differences in properties at different sizes and types of particulate matter.»
The sun comes up an hour later, on the clock, in the Eastern Time Zone than a few miles west in the Central Time Zone, but schools only partially
account for this difference when setting their start times, so, on average, students in the Central Time Zone in Florida have more than half an hour more sunlight before school starts than do their counterparts in the Eastern Time Zone, and some have an hour or more additional sunlight, depending on when school starts.
It may, for example,
partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.
«Our findings support the idea that the nutritional content of breast milk
accounts for the differences seen in human IQ,» Moffitt remarked «But it's not a simple all - or - none connection: it depends to some extent on the genetic makeup of each infant.»
He found significant variability in LAUSD teacher quality, as demonstrated by student performance on standardized tests in reading and math, and he concluded that differences between «high - performing» and «low - performing»
teachers accounted for differences in student performance.
I haven't read the official documents about this change, but I would suspect that the fact that self - published authors have to pay out money for editing and cover
images accounts for the difference.
Home - range boundaries were calculated using minimum convex polygon (MCP) and fixed kernel procedures (KHR, optimized by least - squares cross validation — Worton 1989); 2 procedures were used to
better account for differences in the precision and assumptions associated with each estimator (Harris et al. 1990).
«Depending on how you ask the question, it turns out that the rate of appendicitis and appendectomy in the first week after a colonoscopy was at least fourfold higher compared to these patients» next 51 weeks,» Basson added, noting that the
research accounted for differences in the coding of procedures and other discrepancies in the administrative data.