Sentence examples for instrument in a given from inspiring English sources

The company changed the settings for its statistical process control system to deliberately lower the threshold for identifying potential quality problems, such as a gap between an expected and an actual return on a particular financial instrument in a given time period.

Cronbach's alpha, or the coefficient of internal consistency, is an indicator of the reliability of an instrument in a given sample.

It is important to note that the validity of an instrument does not cease with a single study and a broader source of evidence of validity is needed to consider an instrument valid in a given context (Urbina 2007).

The properties such as the validity, reliability and responsiveness investigated to date are not fixed properties but specific to the instrument used in a given situation and with a given population.

It is important to ensure that the instrument used in a given environment responds adequately to stakeholders' concerns, so that they will take ownership of the results [ 8, 9].

The goal of instrument recognition is the automatic detection of music instruments playing in a given music piece.

With health-related quality of life (HRQoL) being increasingly used as an endpoint in multi-national clinical trials, it is often necessary to use two or more language versions of a HRQoL instrument in any given study.

One of the aims of this collaboration is to identify which screening instruments perform best in a given context.

To use an instrument with confidence, it is important that there be evidence of validity – that is, the meaningfulness, usefulness, and appropriateness of an instrument for a given population in a given context [ 46- 48].

To be able to use an instrument with confidence, however, one needs to be able to provide evidence of the validity – that is, the meaningfulness, usefulness, and appropriateness – of the inferences to be made from scores obtained on the instrument with a given population and in a given context [ 14- 16].

By contrast, the music of India and the Perso-Arab world employs a melody instrument or voice performing in a given metre offset by a drum playing cross rhythms or (in the Arab world) a quite different metre; with no harmony (except a drone) to impede its flow, the rhythm can reach a structure of great subtlety and complexity.