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In a recent article in The Journal of Indexes, he proposed guidelines for constructing an ideal index.
But the measures still fall well short of the elusive ideal index of wellbeing that another 20th-century US politician, Robert Kennedy, had in mind when he complained that economic statistics measured everything except that which makes life worthwhile.
An ideal index should be simple to understand and use, clear in its scoring criteria and be demonstrably reproducible.
Nucleotide diversity is the ideal index used to evaluate the degree of variation of nucleotide sites between populations [ 46].
Furthermore, the ideal index should also be reliable and reproducible with no variations as a result of internal flaws within the index and give the same result if the condition being assessed has not changed.
To date, there is not one ideal index that can be used for epidemiological prevalence studies, clinical staging and monitoring, and it may be necessary to accept that one simple index does not yet exist to meet all requirements of both clinical and research teams.
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Velocity and acceleration are ideal indices for evaluation of structural high-frequency vibration response.
Although FFM may be the ideal indexing variable for left ventricular mass (20), few data exist regarding the relationship between FFM and LVH in overweight and obese subjects.
Moreover, cones probably do not behave like ideal step index fibers as assumed by these theoretical calculations.
Two of the properties of the ideal orthodontic index laid out by Shaw et al [ 7] were; 1- sensitive to the needs of the patients, 2- acceptable to both the public and the profession.
Twenty-two subjects (55%) showed a symmetry shift towards the affected side, 16 subjects (40%) showed a shift away from the affected side and 2 (5%) subjects had ideal symmetry index values.
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