Sentence examples for contiguous categories from inspiring English sources

For an ordinal set, only contiguous categories can be merged.

The contiguous categories of the variables confirm the existence of fuzzy frontiers.

Firstly, the contiguous categories of the variables confirm the existence of fuzzy frontiers between them.

This system describes the level of consensus between categories as well as where the support is located with a high level of consensus defined as 70% of ratings in one agreement category or 80% in two contiguous categories.

In Table  3 we note that discrepancies for the BI-RADS and the Boyd classifications are only for contiguous risk categories, while for Wolfe and Tabár they sometimes are two risk categories apart.

In this way, sets of contiguous perceptual categories sharing the same words are formed, giving raise to what we define as linguistic categories (see fig. 1).

* Contiguous agreement categories are 1 and 2 (in favour of consensus) or 3 and 4 (not in favour of consensus)[ 28] Eight options were generated in the first round of discussion and described in Table 2.

The mean absolute differences in total score between the neutral category response and the contiguous satisfied/dissatisfied response categories (both merged into a single response group) for TSQM item #14 were considered a valid estimate of MID values for the overall scoring of the SATMED-Q instrument using an anchor-based approach.

RUCA-defined rurality identifies isolated rural areas and shows the largest spatially contiguous regions of rurality categories, since commuting patterns play a primary role in the definition, whereas Census 2000 population density tertiles more clearly define highly urbanized areas.

Judgements must still be made about the range for a rating – this can be equivalent to making a categorical judgement, except that the different categories lie contiguous with one another on an ordered dimension.

However, most investigators assume that there exists an underlying continuous latent variable that measures HRQoL, and that the actual measured outcomes (the ordered categories), reflect contiguous intervals along this continuum.