Sentence examples for adequate comparator from inspiring English sources

This doesn't seem like an issue that's going to be settled by this kind of decision, unfortunately, because as the debate shows, nothing is really an adequate comparator for something like a password to an encrypted drive.

The major variables that will be assessed include presence of randomization, use of a control group, use of masked outcome assessment, and in an active-controlled trial, use of an adequate comparator and adequate enrollment to detect a difference if one exists.

Moreover, a recent single-blind trial suggested improvement in disease activity in diabetic patients with active RA, but an adequate comparator control was not used; thus, definitive conclusions regarding efficacy could not be made [ 25].

One example of how this problem was dealt with was by assuming the original long version of the shortened instrument being assessed was an adequate comparator, and can thus be seen as a 'gold standard'.

Furthermore, since the studies were systematically reviewed on the measurement properties of self-reported instruments which encounter subjective data, it was agreed that objective, registered data could serve as an adequate comparator as well.

They were recruited from three nationally leading pediatric diabetes clinics, and their conventional treatment, not optimized for the purposes of this study, reflected typical glucose control that served as an adequate comparator to access benefits of closed-loop basal insulin delivery.

Several therapeutic approaches have been tried in recurrent CDI, but published outcomes have been restricted by limited numbers of patients treated or retrospective analysis, often without adequate comparators.

Although bigram similarity functions have been shown to be adequate comparators for record linkage purposes, several other string similarity comparators are known to perform better, in particular the Jaro comparator and the Winkler modification of it [ 31, 32, 45].

Trials that had <7 days of follow-up, administered fructose intravenously, lacked an adequate carbohydrate comparator, or did not provide suitable end point data were excluded.

Allowing for potential loss to follow-up at 3 months, a sample size of 122 participants (61 intervention, 61 comparator) is adequate to find a reduction of 1.35 episodes of unprotected sex with a conventional two-sided α of 0.05 and 80% power (1−β).

For example, based on the topic of the review, they should agree on what they consider an appropriate time interval for reliability (B8), on an adequate description for the comparator instrument(s) (F7 and I11), or on an acceptable percentage of missing responses (item 8 of the Generalisability box).