To further determine which topological differences were most influential, tests were repeated with the positions of topology-variable accessions alternately modified to match the full alignment topology.
The influential Pisa test rankings, published by the OECD, put Massachusetts as the highest performing US state - but against a background in which the US has become an educational underachiever.
This composite picture puts the UK in a stronger position than the influential Pisa tests from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECDD) - which is also one of the tests included in this ranking.
The potentially influential variables tested for the Argentinean study group were body weight, BMI, age, parity (all modeled as continuous variables), and coca use (yes/no), whereas those for the Bangladeshi study group were gestational week, body weight, BMI, age, and parity (all modeled as continuous variables).
A number of other factors were also influential in directing test preparation behavior.
For all cases, the total porosity was found to be less influential on the test results than pore connectivity.
In what seemed like a very long Beta test, influential tech users had access to the product and were publicly raving about it, indirectly generating buzz and demand for the app as 2012 ended.
He was also an influential tactician and test pilot.
The most influential parameter was test sensitivity of the CEA assay, with a 15 percentage point increase in sensitivity to 79% resulting in a 7.9% increase in proportion undergoing curative salvage surgery, and a 15 percentage point decrease to 49% resulting in a 7.4% decrease in proportion undergoing curative salvage surgery.
Mislevy's thinking has shaped influential educational achievement testing systems such as Race to the Top Consortia testing Program (Flowers et al. 2015), language testing programs, e.g., Next Generation TOEFL now called iBT TOEFL (Chapelle et al. 2008), and innovative research projects (e.g., GBA).
