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The phrase "a reference date" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when specifying a particular date that serves as a point of reference for a document, event, or analysis. Example: "The report will be based on data collected up to a reference date of December 31, 2022."
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Uncertainties in the data and lack of agreement on a reference date make it impossible to give a precise value.
If an artifact's origin can be accurately dated, then it gives a reference date for the layer in which it is found.
Cases were assigned a reference date corresponding to a date 6 months prior to leukaemia diagnosis.
The period of 3 months prior to CDI was determined by calculating backwards from a reference date.
For all women, only potential exposures that occurred before a reference date, approximately 2 years before diagnosis, were considered in the analysis.
Each child was assigned a reference date prior to the interview to make the data collection process similar for cases and DS controls.
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Closer to home, "Jewish Champagne" is a reference, dating from the 1930s, to seltzer or, more specifically, to Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda, a carbonated drink flavored with celery seeds and sweetened with sugar.
Descriptive knowledge informs about the prevailing reality, for instance about the ECEC participation rate of defined age groups (e.g., under 3-year-olds) in a specified jurisdiction (e.g., state) at a specific reference date.
Moreover, we evaluated two different approaches to topographic correction that are relevant to pixel-based image composites: the first corrects each pixel according to the day of year (DOY) the pixel was acquired, whilst the second corrects all pixels to a single reference date (August 1st), which was also the target date for generating the pixel-based image composite.
Both turnover rates give the number of employees who left the establishment during 2010 related to the total number of workers employed by the observed firm at a given reference date in 2010m.
Controls were randomly assigned a comparable reference date to case group dates of diagnoses [ 41].
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