If the tech whiz relents and agrees to assign, remember that an assignment is a contract, so you have to give some something in exchange.
This leaves only modest scope for biases in the experimental impact estimates when interpreted as applying to the entire target population rather than just the study population of those who agree to random assignment.
The lower recruitment appeared to be due to the requirement that participants agree to random assignment to training at either of two periods.
Schools were excluded if administrators were not interested in participating, did not agree to random assignment, or could not guarantee their availability at 9-month post-intervention F/U.
To be eligible for the study, training programs had to: (1) be located within 1 h of the study base (DFCI), (2) enroll a minimum of 40 apprentices, (3) agree to random assignment as to start date of intervention, (4) allow for survey administration to take place during class time in the union hall, and (5) allow for each of the intervention components to take place at the union hall.
Fewer and fewer lawyers each year agree to accept the assignments, she said, causing overwhelming caseloads for those who are left.
In turn, they agree to high-risk assignments in places such as Benghazi and are largely left on their own to take basic precautions, such as finding health and life insurance.
When districts offer adequate pay in contract negotiations, unions typically agree to reasonable changes in assignment practices.
Representation by proxy must be agreed upon by all the other groups and inviduals who agreed to participate, as must the selection of specific individuals or organizations who agree to accept such an assignment.
Before I agreed to the assignment, however, the company sent my wife and me to Shanghai to give us a feel for what life might be like.
His unit in Frankfurt, Germany, was strained by the spy agency's operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but Mr. Foggo agreed to the assignment.
