As the new season approached, the pessimism of VfB Stuttgart fans was palpable and, by most rational measures, justified.
The effect on the relevance of a study's results, especially when considering introduction of novel surgical technologies and perioperative drugs (which are likely to have short term outcome measures), justifies use of a shorter follow-up period in this study.
a) How was the choice of outcome measure justified?
Companies are buying back stock in droves, and sometimes borrowing to do so, without giving investors objective measures to justify the decisions.
Janet Yellen, the Fed's head, rather bizarrely used the prospective price-earnings ratio, one of the weakest of all measures, to justify a statement that Wall Street was not overvalued.
They are a comparatively expensive treatment option, and demonstrating substantial improvement in oral health related quality of life, as assessed by health status measures, could justify public funding of this type of treatment.
But in many places groundwater has long been considered a property right, so farmers have seen no need measure or justify how they use it.
Among those voting against it was Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said he feared that the administration could use the measure to justify military action against Iran.
Value is most simply defined as quality divided by cost, and physicians increasingly rely on the quality-adjusted life year as the numerical measure to justify their services.
