Possess validity

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

For a medical or health care instrument to be clinically useful, it must possess validity.

In a prior study, the SGRQ was observed to possess validity in LAM [ 14].

Yet this argument possesses validity only if British defence policy is perceived as a job creation scheme for pilots and air marshals.

Since the present results correspond well to existing clinical and experimental data, this study indicates that axial, limb and orolingual AIMs possess predictive validity for the preclinical screening of novel antidyskinetic treatments.

First, the test should possess content validity.

For example, in addition to being psychometrically sound, a measure must possess content validity.

We assume that if the performance improves when adding the secondary phenotype predictions, the secondary phenotypes possess biological validity.

The ASRS has been found to possess excellent validity [ 15], including convergence with predicted genetic risk markers for ADHD [ 16].

These results suggest that the predicted secondary phenotypes possess biological validity but will have to be experimentally verified in secondary phenotype screens.

To assess whether the secondary phenotypes possess biological validity, we first used only the primary annotations to predict disease gene candidates and then added the secondary phenotype annotations.

As discussed before, these results indicate that the predictions indeed possess biological validity and constitute good biological hypotheses to guide the design of experimental setups for secondary screens.