Using the MDS for research, policy evaluation and planning has the advantage of not requiring the same level of precision as is needed to justify a clinical decision about an individual resident nor even as definitive as should be necessary to publish the relative ranking of one home over another on a given quality measure.
Because the rise in property values in recent years has translated into bigger mortgages, the two percentage points once seen as a minimum needed to justify refinancing has been supplanted by a drop of as little as three-quarters of a percentage point, according to Melissa Cohn, president of the Manhattan Mortgage Company.
Despite the occasional appearance of muddle, there is a point to the union, and one about which liberals should feel passionate.Red, white and rather blueStrong arguments are needed to justify a step as big as breaking up a nation.
But there's a Catch-22: Solid data are needed to justify Medicaid reimbursement as well as widespread investment in recuperative care, but gathering that data from far-flung, uncoordinated and scattershot programs requires a lot of money.
Their coach, Bert van Marwijk, reacted as if he still needed to justify himself.
As his creation grew, it needed to justify its new scale to its investors, to its users, to the world.
However, simulations by Mass & Hox [ 86] show that between 50 and 100 units per group are needed to justify claims as to the absence of bias in standard error estimates.
The low data-to-parameter ratio invalidates the AIC and non-nested LLR tests, as it strongly violates the approximations needed to justify the tests (the AIC and LLR are strictly only valid in the asymptotic limit of infinite data) [ 94, 105].
Money laundering, the suspicion of which was needed to justify the undercover sting, was a nonissue as well.
As mentioned earlier, at least two citations are needed to justify every single item response.
