Sentence examples for ceiling comparison from inspiring English sources

Previously, on Fareed Zakaria's CNN program GPS, Summers discussed the Lehman Brother-debt ceiling comparison in more detail, saying not raising the debt ceiling would be nearly unthinkable.

IRT can improve on the classical approach to PRO assessment with advantages that might sometimes include appropriate management of possible floor and ceiling effects, comparison of patients across different instruments, interval measurements on the latent trait scale.

IRT and in particular Rasch family models [ 8] can improve on the classical approach to PRO assessment with advantages that include interval measurements, appropriate management of missing data [ 9- 11] and of possible floor and ceiling effects, comparison of patients across different instruments [ 12].

Group 3 participants (n = 985), the intermediate group, had disability scores from 0 to 3. We composed our groups to permit comparison of ceiling items in ceiling and intermediate respondents and floor items in floor and intermediate respondents.

Both scales indeed demonstrated substantially smaller ceiling effects in direct comparison with the original HAQ, indicating that these scales might be more appropriate than the original HAQ for use in relatively well functioning groups.

By comparison, a typical ceiling fan, set at medium speed, pulls just 30 watts, Mr. Parker said.

The answers on both response scales were summarised in a frequency table for comparison of the ceiling effect.

There was no comparison between floor and ceiling effects and comorbidity, autonomy and weight.

Child and parent scores from the comparison group showed stronger ceiling effects than those from the patient group, as would be expected.

A first step in the analysis addresses the comparison of the similarities between ceiling decoration and certain traditional works of wood crafts found in the same area.

This study also identified high ceiling effects on the PedsQL (19%%) in comparison to the ACHWM and to previous studies.