The New York Times measured the frequency of key words in 40 of the hundreds of speeches delivered this spring.
One was that the successful NIH grant proposals of the high-impact primary authors who were study-section members were much more similar (measured by such things as the frequency of key words in them) to those of other successful proposals than were those of non-member high impactors.
Fig. 10 Frequency of key implementation by category.
In order to find this kind of fixation in text, the relative frequency of key terms relating to named entities such as persons, organizations, etc., can be counted.
The size of the target study sample was determined by a priori power calculations to determine the frequency of key variables with a precision of 5% when observed in 50% of the samples.
For the short-answer questions, we compared the frequency of key concepts and misconceptions in student responses between the two treatments, calculated from the presence of the concept or misconception in their written response to short answer questions.
Logging and modern forest management reduced the frequency of key features of old-growth forest, especially old, dying and dead trees in the Scandinavian boreal forest during the 20th century.
Nehm and colleagues' important work on measuring knowledge of natural selection (Nehm and Reilly 2007; Nehm and Schonfeld 2008) very thoroughly addresses the use of multiple assessments, including the CINS and open-response instruments, to measure diversity and frequency of key concepts in student answers about evolution.
(M1) Discussions around preferences for the timing and frequency of key health messages were contradictory.
Together, the mutation frequency of key signalling molecules of the RAS-RAF-MAPK pathway in this patient cohort was very low.
