What results is a more purposive comparison strategy in place of the somewhat arbitrary criterion of statistical significance, which plays virtually no role in AIC models.
The convenience sample had a good mix of key variables (age, gender, ethnicity, number of psychosis episodes, inter-episode symptom level and length of time since admission) so more purposive sampling was unnecessary.
If McCarthy had known that Merian learned her entomology by rearing silkworms when she was a little girl, he might have made more purposive use of her work.
The proportion of GPs reporting participation in dementia education appears to be higher in our sample that in other overseas surveys which used more purposive sampling strategies.
This may be due to different structural contexts and histories of colonization and racialization, and warrants more purposive investigation.
More purposive exploration of HIV testing among YMSM with either bisexual identity or behavior is warranted [ 47].
Public infrastructure investment needs to be planned, purposive and permanent.
Patients will be selected using purposive sampling.
The sampling method will be purposive.
