Sentence examples for contextual measures from inspiring English sources

Where classification variables are missing, individuals' surnames and neighborhood contextual measures can provide useful surrogate data elements for comparing population subgroups.

The Observer understands that the commission will welcome Oxbridge's increasing use of contextual measures as a means of addressing the under-representation of lower-income and state-educated students, but demand greater and better use of it.

Landform elements have been classified based solely on consideration of their local surface shape, on consideration of a combination of surface shape and slope gradient, and on consideration of a combination of surface shape, slope gradient, and contextual measures of relative landform position.

Finally, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire that included demographic, socio-cultural, and contextual measures.

This study is particularly unique in that contextual measures were geographically linked from larger data sources (e.g., the U.S. Census) via geocoding of trauma patient home addresses.

Second, do crime rates and alcohol retail density positively predict higher levels of injury severity and mortality, independent of other neighborhood contextual measures, patient behavior, and demographic measures?

The Residential Environment Assessment Tool (REAT) is designed as a survey instrument, to be completed by an independent observer, to produce a contextual measure of a neighbourhood, reflecting both physical aspects and also the extent to which residents have established territoriality over the area.

This is the first study to examine the role of a contextual measure of community SES in addition to individual level SES measures in association with knee OA.

In both of these studies, the contextual measure was found to be highly significant in its impact on relevant environmental behaviors.

However, racial composition may not always be a true reflection of segregation per se, because segregation is a contextual measure that depends on the relationship between racial groups in neighborhoods (e.g., census tracts) across a larger geographic area (e.g., a metropolitan area).

Issues obstructing progress in data mining for improved health outcomes include data quality problems, data redundancy, data inconsistency, repeated measures, temporal (time-contextual) measures, and data volume.