Sentence examples for Purposeful selection from inspiring English sources

Purposeful selection, as proposed by Hosmer and Lemeshow (2000), was used to select variables to control confounding in multivariable models.

Purposeful selection was based on average and deviant ranking results.

Purposeful selection of candidate variables was done based on a bivariate p value < 0.15.

Purposeful selection of fifteen interviews was used to obtain variation in CMs, gender, age and use of home care services.

Purposeful selection based on the experts' longstanding involvement in different assessment organisations ensured heterogeneity of the focus groups.

Purposeful selection [ 16] was used to obtain variation in gender and in age, use of home care services and CM (Table  1).

Purposeful selection was used to recruit the pharmacies, ensuring representation from both urban and rural settings; all sites had a long history of serving as placement sites for UBC.

The type of sampling used was random purposeful (random selection to select limited numbers of cases from a larger purposeful sample).

Purposeful sample selection was used to target two major groups in Hamilton, Ontario: 1) self-identified members of the Roma community and their self-identified leadership and 2) service providers to the Roma in the health, child welfare, immigration, education, social services, religious, and policing sectors.

A purposeful variable selection strategy was used to build the final multivariate logistic regression models [ 20].

The evidence-base was developed through purposeful article selection by the project directors rather than systematic review methods.