Allen and Seaman (2007) concluded that a five or seven point scale may produce slightly higher mean scores relative to the highest possible attainable score, compared to those produced from a ten point scale, and concluded that this difference was statistically significant.
Therefore, we use weights v m (m = 1, …, M to maximize the EREP ratio, subject to the condition that the highest attainable efficiency score does not exceed the maximum index value of 1 when the same weights are applied across all other years and industries.
A priori, we chose to consider ≥60 points (≥80% of the maximum attainable score) as high quality, between 45 and 60 points (≥60% of the maximum attainable score) as moderate/high quality and <45 points as low quality studies.
Immunization is a key ingredient in helping children attain the highest attainable standard of health.
A 68, he says, would be a good, attainable score for those higher up the leaderboard.
Monitoring revealed major improvements in several health-related human rights impacts, but the impact scores for the right to the highest attainable standard of health were unchanged.
The cut-off point used by Kuijpers et al. (2004) which was shown to be robust, was adopted; studies with scores > 8 points (>60 % of the maximum attainable score) were considered to be of high quality, studies that scored ≤ 8 points of low quality [ 8].
The quality scores ranged from 6 to 9 points (Table 2) and the mean quality score was 8. Thirteen studies were of a high quality although none of the studies received the maximum attainable score [ 8, 11, 12, 14- 18, 18, 21- 26].
