Sentence examples for items to retain from inspiring English sources

In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on existing data using the original BADS in order to identify items to retain for the short form.

The correlation matrix and factor loadings were used to decide which items to retain.

The respondents' evaluation of importance was also considered when deciding which items to retain in the QPP.

The total information function, item information function and model parameters were compared to inform choice of which of the dependent items (or sets of items) to retain.

Although we preferred being stringent in deciding which items to retain, we did not select items that loaded on these factors in all models.

The results for each item set were compared to decide which items to retain; c) Pairs of redundant items were identified if they had very high correlations >0.87 (i.e.75% shared variance).

However, the development of new symptoms (Q4d) was regarded as an important 'stand-alone' item to retain in the IBD-Control instrument since a new symptom should serve as an automatic trigger for traditional clinical evaluation.

In contrast, the two PRCs with "weak" items decided to retain a single yes/no question to assess current smoking (Case 5) or alcohol use (Case 4) following their evidence review.

Maintenance is defined as "the combination of all technical, administrative and managerial actions during the life cycle of an item intended to retain it in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform the required function" [21].

As overall fit to the model was achieved it was decided not to remove this item and to retain it for further investigation.

Since that factor has been disregarded for having only one item, we decided to retain item 20 and its two-item scale, despite the fact that the difference in factor loadings was less than 0.20.