(Outside the news sections, the Sunday Magazine offered an insightful pairing that had real comparability: An equal number of pictures from Israel and Lebanon spread over six pages showed how people were seeking shelter from the bombs and missiles – an effort common to both countries).
The comparability of equal scores on CIRS might provide a problem in assessing the influence of comorbidity.
Randomization is blocked and stratified within primary care provider to increase the comparability of treatment groups and to ensure equal allocation by provider.
Whether "roughly equal" or "on a par" imply comparability is a matter of some debate.
Whereas "roughly equal" is invoked to allow for comparability among alternatives that display the same respects (e.g., literary merit), "on a par" is invoked to allow for comparability between alternatives that are different in the respects that they display.
To maximize comparability of between-individual scores, we obtained an equal number of unimanual acts per individual within each behaviour type before the analysis began.
Only half of the studies tested baseline comparability to ensure that the two groups were equal before wound closure. 1 Similarly, only one study blinded participants and assessors to the method of wound closure by covering the wound with a dressing, in an attempt to limit assessor bias.
Besides the removal of all genus-level overlaps with simHC, we chose the remaining set of 654 reference organisms to be equal for all three tools to ensure comparability of the corresponding methods.
This ensures comparability between the two kinds of statistics and allows equal treatment of the integer ratios 3 1 (6:2), 4 1 (8:2), 5 1 (10:2), 6 1 (12:2) and the non-integer ratios 7 2, 11 2 and 9 2.
The SOFA scores were equal in the index and reference groups, indicating comparability in morbidity between both groups.
