In a conversation, she described a head of state's stubbornness as a "characterological direction of error".
On this subject, Power's characterological direction of error may be the belief that a frank discussion of Libya's lessons exposes her to deeper criticism, and could undermine support for future interventions.
The direction of error was such that the associations of the present study would have been even stronger providing the response rate had been greater.
The position sense acuity was estimated based on the magnitude of shoulder repositioning error, the direction of error and the variability in the performance.
The MAPE is a summarizing measure to express the error during a certain period of time and ignores the direction of error.
The likely direction of error should come more from omission than commission, i.e. from deaths assigned to causes other than TB when TB was the underlying cause.
However, this direction of error would have the effect of minimizing the differences between high and low scorers; in the opposite direction to our results; so paradoxically strengthening our findings.
Nevertheless, as long as this type of measurement error is non-differential (that is, the magnitude and direction of error is the same in all comparison groups) its impact on study analyses will be negligible.
However, the results indicated that the direction of error was significantly different between men and women, and men's performance tended to be significantly more variable than that of women.
