Sentence examples for measuring traits from inspiring English sources

However, less consideration were given to the set of methodological choices preceding the statistical analysis – i.e. from designing a sampling scheme to measuring traits – and how likely they influence the conclusions drawn, as this may subject the analysis to methodological biases.

Another cause might be differences in sampling strategies and the methods used for measuring traits.

We arranged the accessions in the field using a randomized design and chose a single healthy individual for measuring traits.

This assumption may be addressed by measuring many putative adaptive traits, by measuring traits that are strongly correlated with several physiological or morphological traits important for adaptation such as phenology, or by measuring traits that integrate physiology or stress response over time such as growth and survival.

Such r values are not strong enough to suggest non-independence between QTL regions but they might add some evidence of co-selection, a reasonable situation when measuring traits of high agronomic/economic importance subjected to a long history of breeding and selection.

Others have recently proposed the use of large collections of medical data from multigenerational, long-term studies to national health registers as a way of directly testing evolutionary medicine hypotheses, especially where measuring traits relevant to reproduction is possible (Stearns et al. 2010).

Ten of the studies used self-report tools measuring trait impulsivity (see Table 2).

Accounting for ITV may thus strengthen trait-based approaches, but measuring trait values on a large number of individuals per species and site is not feasible.