The phrase "absence of items" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where certain items are not present or available.
Example: "The report highlighted the absence of items necessary for the project to proceed."
Alternatives: "lack of items" or "nonexistence of items".
The problem of integrating Boolean constraints, referring to the presence or absence of items in rules, was considered by [35].
In the past, many algorithms have been proposed to mine frequent itemsets from transactional databases, in which the presence or absence of items in transactions was certainly known.
Another intrinsic difference between the AECG criteria and the ACR criteria is the absence of items assessing the subjective component of the disease in the latter.
Further development of the CNCEQ ought to focus upon the lack of empirical support for the presence of the four current theoretically derived cognitive errors, and the absence of items to assess errors now commonly associated with anxiety in youth.
The obvious ceiling effect and the absence of items able to adequately discriminate at high levels of the latent variable causes the scale to be inadequate for use in contexts in which the detection of persons with high level of resilience is of interest (for example, in selection processes for certain professions).
This is considered serious, because it could result in the misdiagnosis of patients with an absence of item 4 (an alteration of consciousness).
Given the absence of item bias in the 22 SHI items, it was appropriate to examine the differences in the scores for age, gender and mode of administration for the 339 participants who endorsed at least one SHI item.
Indeed, recent studies indicated that, with due control over stimulus features, both early lexical (MacGregor et al., 2012) and syntactic (Hasting et al., 2007) MMN effects can be replicated in the absence of item repetition in non-oddball designs, suggesting a strong resilience of these automatic phenomena to stimulus repetition.
Culture officials on the island complained in particular about the absence of two items, a six-foot-tall statue of a charioteer and a gold libation bowl.
In addition to the presence of absence of key items, our study also assessed, when present, the accuracy of these items compared to information contained in the hospital chart, giving a more complete assessment of the quality of the discharge summary.
While the absence of such items could be seen as a limitation, it is important to remember that items covering "emotions" often have poor inter-rater reliability coefficients.
