Here Chris Dean, technical training officer for Aesseal, looks at how these can be used by engineers and maintenance teams to improve pump reliability, minimise downtime and so cut unnecessary costs.
Although the use of multiple assessors may limit bias, minimise errors and improve reliability, it could give rise to disagreements [22].
Potentially relevant abstracts were obtained for further examination, a random selection of which (20%) were screened independently by a secondary researcher to check reliability and minimise potential bias.
The present paper proposes a movement analysis methodology, which fits the specific constraints of space activity and matches the objective of maximising reliability and minimising on-orbit time, and reports normative data about accuracy and precision of the self-marking of an extended set of anatomical landmarks.
Two researchers will independently assess articles for study eligibility to reduce bias, minimise errors and enhance the reliability of findings.
To minimise bias and improve the reliability of the analysis, 20% (n=12 out of 65) of the interviews were independently coded and charted by two experienced qualitative researchers (one clinical and one non-clinical) as an ongoing process.
Efforts were made to enhance test-retest reliability and to minimise effects due to repeated testing for physical and cognitive ability by a number of familiarising procedures (e.g. careful explanations, exercise sessions and warm-up tasks).
An additional major advantage of concomitant variable LCA models is that this integration of individual items into a classification is standardised, maximising the reliability and expectedly minimising the misclassification.
The re-assessments took place 2 months after the inter-rater reliability phase 13 to minimise the possibility that recall of the first assessments would influence the second assessments.
For each of the 94 samples this amplification event was replicated on three different PCR machines (3 × 94 PCRs) to minimise amplification bias while increasing the reliability and validity of the amplification results.
