Sentence examples for ability distribution from inspiring English sources

The most accurate procedure produced five plausible values, which were drawn from a person ability distribution (OECD [2005]).

As shown in the Wright map (Wilson 2005; Fig. 4), the thresholds spread reasonably well over the person ability distribution.

In the conditional estimation approach, unbiased item parameter estimates will be attained irrespective of the actual ability distribution.

As observed in equation (13), the fraction of time worked during the second period of life, does not directly depend on the ability distribution.

We consider a particular cohort of workers whose ability distribution is normalized to [0,1] and it is assumed to be indexed to the current state of technology.

(2007) in their review on gender differences suggest that the magnitude of gender gap in educational achievement might depend on which portion of the ability distribution is investigated.

Fixed-option test booklets were distributed randomly across testing sessions so that an assumption of equivalent ability distributions could be supported.

By and large, the ability distributions were broad.

Under the strategy-proof Deferred Acceptance mechanism, payoff differences are reduced, and ability distributions across schools harmonized.

For fluid intelligence, researchers emphasize the high overlap between the ability distributions of males and females, whereas research on sex differences in declarative knowledge often uncovers a male advantage.

The estimate of the difference between the means and variances of the ability distributions of the studied groups of respondents is used as an effect size and the purification procedure is stopped when the change in this effect size becomes negligible.