Delaware's state fundamentals score is two points more favorable to Mr. Obama than it otherwise would be, since Joe Biden is Mr. Obama's vice president.
We also shifted our estimate of Wisconsin's partisan lean two points toward Mr. Romney, which is reflected in the "state fundamentals" score that also informs the forecast.
(It is not necessary to adjust the polling in these states, since the polls there already reflect the presence of Mr. Obama, Mr. Romney and Mr. Biden — but the state fundamentals score, which is not based on polling, is subject to the adjustment).
The score also separated two fundamental subsets (score 4 vs. scores 0 3) with significantly different OS and RFS curves across the entire cohort (p < 0.001).
Besides providing support for the use of the GFI screening instrument in a multidimensional way, the present study prompts a fundamental question about using an overall score without delineating specific frailty problems.
Can research connecting collaboration in schools to higher test scores lead to a fundamental transformation in education policy?
There is a fundamental practical difference between using a scoring system such as APACHE II for examining likelihood of death, and using it to determine if a severe sepsis patient lies above or below an arbitrary threshold.
A fundamental assumption is that the measure's error scores and the global rating's error scores are uncorrelated [ 31].
The current report that SAT scores are down again highlights a fundamental flaw in the system.
12 A fundamental difference between this trial and the pilot trial was the mean Barthel index score at baseline.
A fundamental rethinking?
