Sentence examples for methods of categorisation from inspiring English sources
Even for ENHR processes, which use a standard recommended approach, the reporting of priorities varied markedly in format, with different methods of categorisation and numbers of listed priorities.
The method of categorisation of the analysed elements is shown in Table 1.
The proposed method of categorisation considers the functional relationship between the covariate and the outcome, thereby ensuring that critical information is not lost from the continuous variable.
Moreover, the proposed method of categorisation for one continuous predictor can be applied with additional (continuous or categorical) covariates in the model, which means that categorisation can be tailored to the model, including adjustment for several confounders.
The proposed method of categorisation was applied to real data drawn from the IRYSS-COPD Study (IRYSS: Red de investigación cooperativa para la Investigación en Resultados de Salud y Servicios Sanitarios - Co-operative Healthenutcomes & Health Servalidatedearch Network), and then validated by comparing it to other methods.
This result was obtained earlier (Grant et al, 2000; Lewison and Wilcox-Jay, 2003) but with a much simplified (and less accurate) method of categorisation of journals by RL.
Another interpretation could be that our methods of school categorisation may have blunted any observable effects.
As clinical use of categorisation methods and subsequently stratified care also require repeated testing, the tool used also needs to prove longitudinal validity and this has recently been established for the CSQ24 [ 23].
No study justified its choice of categorisation method.
Due to differences in methods of measurement, analysis and categorisation of SES, cross-study comparisons were difficult and limited.
The lack of systematic differences between HPS and NHPS could be due to the methods of the study, or the categorisation of the schools; but it is clear that further qualitative research is needed to identify essential characteristics that define a HPS in the Irish context.
