Sentence examples for a thorough pilot from inspiring English sources

Constructing a robust DCE also requires that the choice of attributes has emerged from a thorough pilot exercise.

Various authors describe how they struggled with the lack of instruments to adequately assess pedagogical interactions (Anders et al. 2016; Melhuish 2016) or young children's development beyond 'easy' measurable domains like literacy or early numeracy (e.g. Weinert et al. 2016) and might have needed more time and money to conduct thorough pilot or validation studies.

In addition, measurement error was minimized by thorough pilot testing and feasibility assessment, and by limiting the number of choice tasks to nine.

Thorough pilot testing of the study materials and procedure among women in the relevant age range resulted in various refinements (such as replacing the term "overdiagnosis" with "overdetection" to avoid confusion with misdiagnosis).

Thorough piloting of an adequate outcome measure could have led to an unequivocal result.

Thorough piloting was undertaken [ 10].

Thorough piloting of IT systems is essential in these situations.

Thorough piloting of innovative procedures is strongly recommended before the conduction of large-scale studies.

The questionnaire was subject to thorough piloting in three hospitals [ 11] and, along with the user guide, is available online for download and use [ 12].

Additionally, at the outset, we recognised potential difficulties in summarising complex service models in survey questions and categories and attempted, address this with thorough piloting.

17 Evaluations are often undermined by problems of acceptability, compliance, delivery of the intervention, recruitment and retention, and smaller than expected effect sizes that could have been predicted by thorough piloting.