These contrasting findings could be due to the use of different measures for evaluating representativeness: in the present study a sample is considered representative if it gives us an unbiased estimate of the outcome studied, whereas in other studies, representativeness is defined in terms of whether participants in the sample have similar characteristics as those in a random sample.
Different measures of mixing are evaluated based on the solid horizontal flux entrained into the jet, the bed-averaged counter-current model and bed-averaged solid convection and diffusion.
Drawing comparisons between studies was made difficult by the fact that they targeted various levels of stigma, employed different measures of stigma and evaluated different types of interventions.
We used different measures to evaluate the quality of clustering.
Our results illustrate that the various stakeholders had different concerns and used different measures to evaluate the degree of successful hospital discharge functioning.
We used two different measures of sexual risk to evaluate risk compensation associated with male circumcision: an index based on 18 sexual behaviors and laboratory diagnosed STIs.
In the present study we have applied different measures of neuronal response reliability to evaluate the coding performance of blowfly photoreceptors.
Third, studies have evaluated different measures of morbidity, including general practitioner visits (Hajat et al. 2004; Hajat and Haines 2002), emergency department visits or admissions (Liang et al. 2009; Wang et al. 2009), and hospitalizations (Lin et al. 2009; Michelozzi et al. 2009).
Landor analyzed data for about 2,500 brands across industries and interviewed more than 15,000 consumers annually, evaluating 48 different measures of brand health.
The finding that different serotonergic manipulations can have contrasting effects on different measures of impulsivity is an important consideration when evaluating the effects of serotonergic drugs in ADHD.
