Care is also needed in using SPC across multiple sites, where there may be a need for adjusting for differences among sites (requiring more formal time-series analysis), and in the selection of baseline and postintervention time periods: this should not be done arbitrarily or post hoc, as it substantially increases the risk of bias.
In the past, agencies arbitrarily decided what information to post on their Web sites.
In court filings, the doctors — one who was born in the United States and two who were born in India and are naturalized citizens — say they were consistently treated like second-class citizens, removed from committees and pushed out of laboratory posts arbitrarily, or overlooked in favor of "less-qualified" cardiologists C.M.C. hired.
Then, the waveguide is modelled using the WFE method, where the FE model of a small segment of the waveguide, whose cross-section could be arbitrarily complex, is post-processed to yield the wave properties of the whole waveguide.
The options were to privilege one of the models (i.e. to choose one particular model and reject the others, arbitrarily or using post hoc criteria), use two or more models in combination, or to produce an a priori framework based on all five publications.
Imagine how clogged our roads would be if there were no posted speed limits and fines were imposed arbitrarily.
We show that online posted pricing mechanisms, which are incentive compatible, can achieve competitive ratios arbitrarily close to the optimal, and construct lower bound instances on which no online algorithms, not necessarily incentive compatible, can do better.
Hate the way Facebook seems to arbitrarily crop photos you post on your Timeline to fit the square preview windows?
For practical reasons determined by the length of the project the time horizon used was arbitrarily defined as 12 months post-referral for clients that survived.
The results in Fig. 3 also indicate that, since the event-based metrics can be made arbitrarily good using the collar post-processing step, then they should not be the metrics used to optimise the system design.
