However, despite the importance of including covariates, a model that includes a covariate that is an aggregate of a person-level characteristic rather than a study characteristic may also produce biased results.
We had to balance the interests of consumers with the concerns of health plan sponsors and carriers, which told us that their computer systems were not set up to aggregate all of a person's out-of-pocket costs.
These findings support the hypothesis that not individual comorbidities or laboratory markers but rather an aggregate measure of a person's risk due to comorbid conditions characterizing an impaired general state of health could serve as a significant predictor for MRSA colonization in HD outpatients.
It is commonly charged that Mill's inference commits the fallacy of composition the fallacy that since this person has a mother, that person has a mother, and that other person has a mother, therefore the aggregate of all persons has a mother.
He argues that a person does desire his own happiness for its own sake and that, therefore, happiness as such is desired by and desirable for its own sake for humanity as a whole ("The aggregate of all persons") (IV 3).
Mill then continues to argue that people desire happiness — the utilitarian end — and that the general happiness is "a good to the aggregate of all persons".
As he puts it, since "each person's happiness is a good to that person, then 'the general happiness' must be a good to the aggregate of all persons" (Utilitarianism, Ch. 4).
Hence atomistic theories of institutions tend to go hand in glove with atomistic theories of all collective entities, e.g. a society consists of an aggregate of individual human persons.
Created in the 1980's, this aggregate score is a snapshot of a person's creditworthiness based on the sum of their past financial decisions.
OneReceipt's Chrome extension was originally developed with Mint in mind, as the popular personal finance service aggregates purchases from across all of a person's accounts and credit cards.
His theory of social interaction ("intermental activity") emphasized the individual in an aggregate of persons and brought Tarde into conflict with Émile Durkheim, who viewed society as a collective unity.
