Sentence examples for dummy items from inspiring English sources

Dummy items were used to exclude any participant who endorsed all dummy items because of concern about the credibility of participants' answers.

Five dummy items at the beginning of each block allowed the signal to reach equilibrium.

Dummy items were symptoms that are not thought to be associated with hypoglycaemia (e.g. rash), and were used to assess the integrity of each participant's responses.

The seven original items with three response categories were transformed into 14 dichotomous dummy items for each individual as described above.

Cronbach's α values were > 0.7 for each symptom category except for the dummy items, demonstrating the reliability with which each real symptom category measured similar concepts (physical 0.81, behavioural 0.78, mood 0.82, psychosensorial 0.89, dummy 0.60).

Of the 133 eligible and consenting participants, one participant's results were excluded from analysis because of having endorsed all dummy items, leaving a total sample size of 132 participants, 69 from the University of North Carolina and 63 from Kocaeli University.

The service provider filters the frequent item set that is affected by the dummy item using a code to extract the correct association rule using frequent item set without the dummy item.

The service provider maintains the code information to filter out the dummy item after the extraction of frequent item set by an external cloud platform.

In Fig. 6, the service provider adds a dummy item as noise to the original transaction data collected by the data provider.

Fig. 6 Overview of the process of association rule mining the service provider adds a dummy item as noise to the original transaction data collected by the data provider.

A separate β-parameter was estimated for each dummy item, so that for each original item there are two β-parameters.