Your May 9 news article about Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll on the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial primary highlights a contentious issue in political survey research: the relative merits of samples using voter lists, which contain information about people's voting histories, versus samples generated by computerized random-digit telephone dialing.
Figure 6 Extinction coefficient and figure of merit of samples as functions of magnetic induction.
This story broke at about the same time that the merits of untidy sampling practices by Ugandan musicians including Chameleon, Bobi Wine, and Bebe Cool were being weighed against the need for artists and producers to be properly compensated for original material.
Four such criteria are described, and applied to assess the merits of four sampling schemes previously reported, using three large observational databases to quantify relative performance.
Under such a model, only large, extended pedigrees with 'Mendelian-like' structures (and statistical accounting for heterogeneity) may be capable of producing robust linkage signals [80] (also see Baron, 2001 [81] for an overview of the relative merits of various sample characteristics and analytic approaches to linkage).
The checklist on the FTM-EC review form includes issues of scientific merit, sampling techniques, investigators' experience, adequacy of the research facilities, realistic budgeting, appropriate compensation, study population and vulnerable populations, type of study, information sheet, and informed consent process.
More precisely, we aim to determine the merits of a global sampling approach (IncaRNAtion), compared with a glocal procedure (IncaRNAtion + RNAinverse) and a local search methodology (RNA-SSD).
The relative merits of different gate sampling strategies are compared and the validity of the model is experimentally established using a slab phantom with objects containing two commercial fluorophores.
The sample weights, i.e., the proportion of the samples in the final positioning result, are a measure of the merits of the standard sample.
