By referring to the level of agreement or concordance between coders, we are able to estimate the reliability without making assumptions of accuracy on the part of either coder.
In the case of the electricity price predictions, the assumption of their accuracy can be made with greater confidence because Ontario's electricity is produced mainly with nuclear, hydro, and natural gas power plants.
The fact that the growth curves agree well with the data actually available supports the assumption of an accuracy of the order 20%% which induces a similar uncertainty in the simulation results.
The fact that it is now possible to relax the assumption of perfect accuracy and report on events before their occurrence is remarkable and continued work on this project is already in progress.
In cases where both radiographic and cross-sectional imaging was available, measurements of cross-sectional modality were given preference under the assumption of higher accuracy.
Knowledge of residential locations at the cross-street and address level also allows determination of distance to existing monitoring stations; thus, subjects living far from stations can be excluded from analyses (based on the assumption that accuracy of exposure assessment decreases as one moves farther away from a station).
This paper investigates the effects of the approximation assumption on the accuracy of in-plane buckling and postbuckling analyses of pin-ended and fixed shallow parabolic arches by comparing the analytical solutions with their finite element counterparts.
In this paper, the effect of this simplifying assumption on the accuracy of numerical predictions is investigated.
This makes sense, but is based on the assumption that the accuracy of NIRS is independent of level of oxygenation.
Although this is a reasonable assumption, the accuracy of the prior model may have significant influence on the efficacy of the segmentation.
Apart from intrinsic flaws in the original studies and methodological challenges in statistically pooling results [ 14, 15], there is concern about the generalisability of results of such meta analyses, due to the invalidity of assumptions about the constancy of accuracy measures (sensitivities, specificities, and likelihood ratios) across different patient groups [ 16- 20].
