The approach we have adopted here of relating factor scores and individual measures to ASD status has the advantage of helping to identify those measures that may be most informative for future research from amongst the wide number of putative traits available.
We support the suggestions of Shalowitz and Miller (2008) that most informative would be research showing the resource costs and effects on patients of various feedback alternatives, as well as outcomes in terms of satisfaction, understanding, and trial perceptions/behavioural intentions, including willingness to participate again and/or recommend trials to others.
"I spoke to three or four female FBI agents, that was the most informative part of the research, more so than reading books and watching other movies," she says.
It would be most informative to conduct qualitative research investigating the process of evidence use in guideline development.
6 7 The most informative review for our research question and the UK specific focus was a Cochrane review evaluating the effect of prescribing policies using financial incentives.
It recognizes the importance of both quantitative and qualitative research methods but also offers a powerful third mixed research methodology that potentially will provide the most informative, complete, balanced, and useful research results.
30 It offers a 'powerful third paradigm choice that often will provide the most informative, complete, balanced and useful research results'.
The purposive sampling focuses on particular knowledge and experiences of individuals that are of interest, i.e. the individuals who are most informative in relation to the research question [ 22].
This requires research that identifies the most informative views, and then techniques that can leverage such information as a priori information for data collection.
This research suggests that the most informative measures for doctors may be estimates of the post-test probability of disease (predictive value), which can be presented as a range corresponding to different pre-test probabilities.
