Sentence examples for method of equating from inspiring English sources

PHOTOS: Best from Sochi Olympics 2014 Though it's just one more method of equating female beauty with skinniness (see also: pronounced collar bones, visible hip bones and the "bikini bridge"), the thigh gap has become a ubiquitous enough goal to spawn a welter of "how to" guides and, increasingly, an accompanying backlash, complete with its own hashtag: #Stopthighgap.

In all probability, all of those involved, including ourselves, were subject to a cognitive illusion, interpreting changes in Part 1 from 2008/3 as being caused by changes in the method of equating because we knew that the method of equating had changed.

We now model the complicated distribution of the random AUC, a weighted sum of chi-square random variables, as a single distribution ≈ cχ R by the standard method of equating moments.

Genic selection is applied using the standard method of equating the fitness of the homozygote for the wildtype allele (w22) to 1, the fitness of the homozygote for the transgene (w11) to 1 + s and the fitness of the heterozygote (w12) to 1 + 0.5 × s (Maynard Smith 1998).

The method of equating medians, and comparing performance with graduates of individual UK medical schools, give slightly different results, which are summarised in table 5. Values are indicated as marks relative to the current pass mark and are in raw marks on the scales of the examinations themselves.

The MoM method consists of equating the experimental moments with the corresponding theoretical ones in order to obtain an estimate of the unknown parameters of interest.

percentile matching (PM) estimates method, which consists of equating a selection of five empirical (X_{i}) and five theoretical percentiles (X(p_{i},lambdaa )).

A range of direct methods for equating standards is available, some of which rely on item overlap of assessments 22 and of examiners.

To go beyond the current standard of practice of equating fitness ranks to frequency ranks, any fitness inference method based on cross-sectional data will need to make strong assumptions on the population dynamics p ˙ (t ).

McHorney and Cohen [ 69] use the more complex 2-parameter scaling method, along with equating methods which allows for a large number of items (i.e., 166) to be placed on an interval scale.

To present a method of estimating and equating scales across functional assessment instruments that appropriately represents changes in a patient's functional ability and can be meaningfully mapped to changes in Medicare G-code severity modifiers.