Through this compendium SEDAC has sought to make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying metadata database.
In summary, methodological and epidemiological considerations strongly favour the first approach.
In summary, methodological and platform improvements have been made over the past several years that have resulted in a decrease in the observed technical variability and resulted in superior performance.
Elsewhere, standards are not always as high and improvements in the conduct of IPD meta-analyses of prognostic factor studies are often needed; in particular, continuous variables are often categorised without reason; publication bias and availability bias are rarely examined; and important methodological details and summary results are often inadequately reported.
The chapter also provides a brief overview of additional issues facing adolescents that were not covered in depth in other chapters as well as a summary of methodological approaches to studying adolescents.
For convenience, the discussion in this section will give a summary of methodological issues identified in the literature rather than a profile of the studies based on particular methods and approaches.
Recently, Song et al published a summary of methodological problems identified by surveying published reviews of mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis.
We close with a summary of methodological challenges, lessons learned, and expectations for the future.
In summary, our methodological approach was to train individual multivariate pattern classifiers (MVPCs) to distinguish indoor from outdoor scenes separately in each of the three task conditions.
McCulloch et al. provide a summary of methodological approaches used both within and across sectors, and a similar but more exhaustive review by Narayanan and Gulati focuses on the implications of globalization for smallholder agriculture.
