Good quality research on the aetiology and course of psychopathology in the population is impossible without reliable and
valid data from long - term longitudinal cohort studies.
It is interesting, however, that USHCN and NOAA documents and scientists, like the poster here at CA, Lee, make numerous references to quality control as that process for (attempting) extractions of
valid data from poorly obtained collections.
Mike's «Nature trick» was to delete
valid data from the end of one series and then replace it with data from a totally different source.
Not exact matches
It's important to understand that job «quits» are included as a component of the «separations»
data series as «quitting» is a
valid means of workers «separating»
from employers, but their inclusion tends to create an overall procyclical trend in what would otherwise be logically thought of as a countercyclical process (i.e. downturn leads to increase in separations not decrease).
But I do realize that the atheist rant is pointless, especially where it tries to argue
from an empirical / scientific standpoint because spirituality isn't about trying to figure things out
from the outside in through research and
data collection — it's when we see things
from the inside out and the only
valid instrument of measurement is our own being.
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Being a subjective statistic it is hard to get many
valid conclusions
from the
data provided as the definition of a clear cut chance is up for interpretation.
Ever the scientist begging for
data on this point, I'd say that another equally
valid conclusion
from the article linked here is that perhaps the improvement in kids» behavior
from improved food and drink is like the link between crime and graffiti.
And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward
data is
valid, you can to look at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome
from at - home birth than hospital.
First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a
valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge
from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»
The EPA's IG found (pdf) in 2014 «there was significant uncertainty in the study
data,» meaning the EPA's assumptions on the amount of methane that spews
from pipelines «may not be
valid.»
We rejected any years in which there were missing months
from the HadSST3
data analysis and we also calculated the global averages only for years in which at least half of the ocean surface consisted of
valid data.
If the proposed settlement agreement is approved by the Court, ruby will contribute a total of $ 11.2 million USD to a settlement fund, which will provide, among other things, payments to settlement class members who submit
valid claims for alleged losses resulting
from the
data breach and alleged misrepresentations as described further in the proposed settlement agreement.
Child - level assessment
data means the
data collected by an agency on an individual child
from one or more
valid and reliable assessments of a child's status and progress, including but not limited to direct assessment, structured observations, checklists, staff or parent report measures, and portfolio records or work samples.
Above all, we need reliable, consistent and meaningful
data that we can really dig into,
from which
valid inferences can be drawn and that fundamentally ensures we are looking at the whole child.
A new report, A Deeper Look: INSPIRE
Data Demonstrates Quality in Educational Leadership Preparation, synthesizes data drawn from a valid and reliable program evaluation survey — the INSPIRE Preparation Program Sur
Data Demonstrates Quality in Educational Leadership Preparation, synthesizes
data drawn from a valid and reliable program evaluation survey — the INSPIRE Preparation Program Sur
data drawn
from a
valid and reliable program evaluation survey — the INSPIRE Preparation Program Survey.
Use instructionally relevant assessments that are reliable and
valid • SCREENING: Collecting
data for the purpose of identifying low - and high - performing students at risk for not having their needs met • DIAGNOSTIC: Gathering information
from multiple sources to determine why students are not benefiting
from instruction • FORMATIVE: Frequent, ongoing collection of information, including both formal and informal
data, to guide instruction
Anecdotal evidence is just as
valid as
data generated
from research studies.
To affirm NASSP's support for a global community of educators, offer recommendations for improving the relevance and significance of international comparisons, and promote appropriate comparative analysis of the
data from international assessments to aid in reaching
valid conclusions regarding the performance of public schools in the United States of America.
When identification procedures require the use of «cut scores» and / or formulas that combine scores
from a variety of measures into a single score (i.e., an IQ score combined with an achievement score and a performance score
from a checklist), we violate sound statistical methods and the
data are no longer
valid (Frasier, 1997).
Our approach, however, also challenged us to develop a
valid and coherent storyline
from the
data.
There may be
valid criticisms of how much you can extrapolate
from his
data.
Your statements and opinions must be backed up by
valid scientific evidence and
data from recognized field experts, and your conclusions must point to additional work that might be warranted or new questions and issues that may arise as technology does.
All of the methods described implicitly assume you have a lot of free time collect enough
data from which to draw
valid conclusions.
The New School studies say that the SWR ranges
from 2 percent to 9 percent; the long - term value proposition of stocks depends heavily on the valuation level that applies at the day of a stock purchase, according to an analytically
valid examination of the historical
data.
This
data is far more
valid and useful that assumptions drawn
from pedigree
data alone.
But
from such broad open - minded study of all
data,
valid conclusions can be drawn.
Our
data come exclusively
from Microsoft, and the extent to which our results are
valid for other companies is not clear without replications.
That should only be a last resort if results were not reproducible
from the
data, or the
data was not traceable to a
valid source.
So the results
from the Curry et al study is
valid for the surface
data diagnostics as given in the Forest et al. (2006, GRL) study.
Despite much (
valid) concern about amplifying climate - methane feedbacks and leaks
from «fracking» activity, the isotopic
data suggest that the increase of CH4 emissions is more a result of agricultural emissions.
Yet all the authors» examples allege the opposite situation,... Case 12 refers to McKitrick and McIntyre 2005, which focused on the bias arising
from using decentered
data in a PCA algorithm that is only
valid when the
data are centered... The authors do not seem to have taken the trouble to properly research the issue, and as such their brief commentary lacks credibility
The correlation of the monthly
data from 1958.17 to 2015.25 comparing only
valid data is 75 % with 681
data points.
Not very long ago Phil Jones used dendrological
data as a temperature - proxy and it correlated with temperatures quite well up until 1960, but then it unpredictably and unexpectedly diverged
from the instrumental record disproving the assumption that they can be used a
valid paleo - thermometers as was previously thought.
Within the space afforded by using two times the standard error you will be able to draw trend lines that are indistinguishable
from previous recent decades, and they will be as «
valid» as the «statistically flat» trend Dr. Whitehouse assures us is in this
data.
Fowler, Drobot, and Maslanik (4 - no new
data available - see June report) While no new
data are available for the onset of ice retreat
from Fowler et al., their earlier assessment of ice retreat patterns in this sector is still
valid and appears to reproduce at least part of the retreat pattern, with a tongue of lingering ice north of Barrow.
What exactly does «but that estimator will be
valid only if tree - ring
data from across the period of the chronology are contributing» mean?
Since NOAA is supplying temperature
data valid to two decimal places, going
from the times of glass thermometers where maybe you could guess a half - degree, their analysis would be interesting reading.
Tests with present - day models show that the assumption is
valid if averages can be obtained
from a very good global
data coverage, even without temporal averaging.
My understanding is that with an exponentially growing forcing, one can not figure out the time constant
from the temperature
data alone, as there are an infinite number of
valid solutions, some with longer time constants and higher heat capacities, and some with shorter time constants and lower heat capacities.
The point of this remark is that no one up to present date has conducted any analysis of this sort on the ice core
data, therefore my assertion that currently «you have no
data of adequate quality
from past proxies, so the argument of «unprecedented» growth can not be used» is perfectly
valid and is true.
As you would expect
from a law - abiding corporation, Dropbox has made it explicit in its Security Overview that it will release your
data to authorities «when it receives
valid legal process,» and it will remove their encryption
from the
data before handing it over.
Moving
data from one PMS to another is non-trivial and his concern is totally
valid.
The method used by Beekman et al is sound enough for
valid conclusions to be drawn
from the results, although the extent to which medical interviewers were blinded to screening
data is not clear.
MVPA models were estimated using
data from families whose children wore the accelerometer for at least 4 of 7 days and had
valid data for all predictors (N = 311 for authoritative and authoritarian models and 313 for permissive models).
To our knowledge, there is no evidence to suggest that self - report measures of CU traits are less
valid than parent - report or teacher - report measures, although we acknowledge that collecting
data from multiple informants would have strengthened the study.
Screen time models were estimated using
data from families who had
valid data for screen time and all predictors (N = 402 for authoritative, 401 for authoritarian, and 404 for permissive models).
(1) Our
data are derived
from children / adolescents (and mothers) referred to our tertiary Headache Center and may not be representative of the whole pediatric population suffering
from migraine without aura; (2) The psychological tools employed in our study (TAS - 20, ASQ, SAFA - A, D, and S) have a self - report nature; although, they have been considered
valid for psychological screening, they are not suitable for a formal diagnosis of psychiatric disorder; moreover, ASQ, as a self - report questionnaire, may not be able to elicit stress and danger situations, which are indispensable to activate the attachment system; (3) In future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity, attachment style, and psychological profile.
Dietary
data were collected
from the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), a
valid and reliable measure of estimated food and beverage consumption (Rogers and Emmett 1998); The FFQ was used to assess (a) mother's reported dietary patterns at 32 weeks gestation («pregnancy»), and (b) what the mother reported feeding her child at 38 months of age («3 years»).