Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote for the majority that the constitutional guarantee of equal protection prohibited the state from imposing "a lifetime hardship on a discrete class of children not accountable for their disabling status".
The court ruled that this violated the Constitution's equal protection clause, saying that the statute "imposes a lifetime hardship on a discrete class of children not accountable" for their immigration status.
Data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows© version 12 and STATA© version 9. To compare the characteristics of the three groups of children, discrete data were analyzed by the Fisher exact test and continuous data by independent samples Student's t-tests.
Tasker et al 62 observed a discrete group of children with persistent upper airway obstruction despite adenotonsillectomy, and reasoned that this was due to progressive hydrocephalus linked to foramen magnum stenosis.
Note that if younger children were able to store < 3 <span class="lh">discrete items, whereas older children were able to store ≥ 3 items, for example, then this component would be expected to show an effect of age (since un-encoded items would give rise to uniformly distributed response errors).
In the 1982 decision of Plyler v Doe, the justices struck down a Texas statute that excluded undocumented immigrant children from public education, and said a state may not "deny a discrete group of innocent children the free public education that it offers to other children residing within its borders".
In this hypothetical case, a child receives discrete and varying amounts of dietary exposure, Pdietary (micrograms), from the meals (see Table 1 for a list of all terms used in this article).
Klejman S, Andrysek J, Dupuis A, Wright V. Test-retest reliability of discrete gait parameters in children with cerebral palsy.
First, though our analysis relied on categorizing children into discrete groups, this should not be taken to mean that we regard these disorders as qualitatively distinct from normality, or from one another.
We compared children readmitted in discrete intervals within the first 30 days after discharge to children who did not experience a readmission at any point after their index hospitalisation, and we analysed medical and surgical cases separately.
