Sentence examples for basic unit of observation from inspiring English sources
"This is particularly problematical in the social sciences, when the basic unit of observation is so often that political, free-willed, unpredictable character, the individual human".
The survey was carried out on a very large scale, with a sample of over 3,000 production plants, carrying out approximately 10,000 shipments (the basic unit of observation) ; 25,000 persons participating in the shipments were interviewed, and about 17,000 detailed routes were described.
The basic unit of observation that represents the integrated exposure period measured is a person-period for the food (4 days), urine (first morning void), and hair (1.5 months) data, and a household-period for the drinking water and dust data.
The basic units of observation are the 186 local administrative areas defined by the Global Administrative Areas dataset.
This is consistent with the observation that operons might be considered as the basic unit of recombinational events between species [ 23].
Here, we are considering the past observations of primary channels on a per resource block (RB) basis, where RB is the basic unit of the spectrum in LTE-A.
But in fact "The Silent Land" is a structural oddity, adopting the sentence as its basic unit of lyricism but the paragraph as its basic unit of motion.
