Sentence examples for manipulated factors from inspiring English sources

Manipulated factors included the number of groups (10 or 20), magnitude of DIF, percent of DIF items, the nature of DIF, as well as the percent of affected groups with DIF.

Manipulated factors were acoustic accompaniment (music, metronome, and silence) and synchrony (both in phase with the beat, other-figure out / self-figure in phase, and other-figure in / self-figure out of phase).

To examine the impact of various factors on DIF detection, we manipulated several variables (see Manipulated factors).

In summary, the manipulated factors were: response stage (initial/final), scenario familiarity (pulmonary embolism/acute myeloid leukemia), and level of threshold ("risk") according to EUT (high/low B2/H2 ratio), all manipulated within participants.Figure  1 shows details of the experimental design.

Selections of levels within the manipulated factors were based on two principles.

Most of the main effects and two-way interaction effects of the manipulated factors are statistically significant.

The only deliberately manipulated factor, i.e. fertilizer application, modified the transgene effects only in the glasshouse but not in the field.

A main strength is that we used an experimental design to systematically manipulate factors and observe the effects of this manipulation, something we would not be able to control for in observational studies.

In fact, for field trials, many contextual factors are site-specific and it is difficult to effectively manipulate factors such as soil Cd concentration and soil pH.

Future experiments should manipulate factors such as genetic variation and dispersal to determine their joint effects on responses to climate change.

Unlike work in nonhuman species (13), it is not possible in humans to ethically and independently manipulate factors related to both sex chromosomes and sex hormones within a single study.