The phrase "a reference criterion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a standard or benchmark against which something is measured or evaluated.
Example: "In our study, we established a reference criterion to assess the effectiveness of the new treatment."
Alternatives: "a benchmark standard" or "a measurement guideline".
A result of this increased attention has given ECERS, and subsequently ECERS-R, the reputation as a valuable measure of overall quality and has become a reference criterion for measuring the quality of early childhood services in the U.S. First introduced in 1999 in the state of Colorado, some 18 states currently use a form of QRS (quality rating system) at a state-wide level (NCCIC, 2009).
Haroon et al. investigated 231 consecutive patients in general clinics using a reference criterion for a normal value of >53 nmol/L [ 21].
Responsiveness of the SPADI has been assessed using retrospective self-assessment of global change as a reference criterion, a study [ 3] cited by several researchers.
Conventionally, features such as harmonics-to-noise ratio [27] and preprocessing methods like database normalization involving speaker, corpus, language, or gender are used to cope with the need of defining a reference criteria [14] in emotion detection.
Detailed formulation of the introduced features is presented in Section 5. Before giving the formulation of the feature set in this section, we should remark that the subjective nature of the emotion forces researchers to employ a reference criteria which scales the effect of this subjectivity.
Of the 51 studies that met criteria [6,7,17 65], we identified two main categories into which these studies could be divided: first, studies that evaluated screening tools by comparing them with a reference standard or criterion (n = 31 of 51 or 61% of studies evaluated) [6,7,17 44,64], and second, studies that evaluated screening tools by other methods (n = 20 of 51 or 39% of studies) [45 63,65].
This article compares the performance of these criteria with a reference standard of unanimous classifications by 3 independent glaucoma experts.
Thus, Smedema et al. detected LGE in all 12 patients with cardiac sarcoidosis using the JMHW criteria as a reference standard.
The use of a consistent reference criterion, the ULFI, supports the similarity of findings in the two samples.
The research team discussed the resulting interview guide, which consisted of the following topics: information used in forming a judgment, reference criteria, (different) ways of arriving at a judgment and the time needed to do so, student factors influencing decision making, abilities deemed essential for assessors, perceived pressure, and conflicting views on performance assessment.
Furthermore, since CCs are measures of association but not of agreement between a questionnaire and its reference criterion, CCs cannot detect systematic errors.
