Sentence examples for as a normative reference from inspiring English sources

Lack of a sufficient population to act as a normative reference.

Body fat percentiles/reference data have been proposed based on skinfold thickness and bioelectrical impedance, but unless a specific threshold of body fat is associated with negative health outcomes, body fat reference data serve as a normative reference standard and a means of ranking children against their peers.

Healthy subjects rarely have any low EBC pH values (defined as < 7.4 based on a normative reference range from 404 healthy subjects).

DXR-BMD was compared with a normative reference database [ 30].

My hunch is that this is exactly the conclusion the reporter wanted readers to make when she set up her unpopular issues bogeyman as the normative reference point for her to ridicule the "we'll-take-any-question" website.

However, because the risk estimates for 7 and 8 h of sleep were the same, we used combined 7 and 8 h of sleep as the normative reference group in subsequent analyses in order to attain more stable risk estimates.

Histogram-based normalization of nerve voxel signal intensities was performed using the age- and sex-matched control group as normative reference.

However, generic instruments also are important as there are normative reference data and their use permits comparison across different patient populations (Spieth and Harris, 1996).

As previously mentioned the norm, UNI EN 14351-1 Part 1 is the Italian normative reference for the EC marking of transparent windows.

The aim of this paper was to calculate reference values for different patient groups and highlight the concept of normative reference data to contextualise an individual's outcome.

We would argue that publications on empirical studies in medical ethics as a normative discipline should always include at least some reference to normative analysis.