Sentence examples for nominal measures from inspiring English sources

William Robert Fogel, a Nobel prize-winning economic historian, argues†† that nominal measures of economic well-being often miss such huge changes in the conditions of life.

However, to obtain a comparable measure of income over time, it is necessary to deflate the nominal measures at each specific moment by a price series, most commonly the consumer price index (CPI).

WASHINGTON -– Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday defended his idea to slash corporate and personal income tax rates by saying that job creation should be the top goal in lieu of "nominal measures of who gets wealthy".

We assessed comparability of residents' characteristics for nominal measures by Chi-square analysis, and for scale measures by the Independent-Samples T-test and the Mann-Whitney test.

> Any statistical group differences at baseline were explored with one-way ANOVAs, while descriptive statistics were used to explore group differences on nominal measures such as gender.

We compared other measures between randomised groups under intention to treat analysis using χ test and Fisher's exact test, including its extension to tables larger than 2×2 (nominal measures), the χ test for trend (ordinal), the Mann-Whitney U test (skewed), and the unpaired t test (interval).

Berlin remains ahead of London on this nominal measure, and at 13% has one of the highest proportions of cycle trips a share of all journeys.

19 The outcome (dependent) variable was treated as a nominal measure: 'well prepared' versus 'poorly prepared'.

We calculated dimensional scores for knowledge, risk awareness, attitudes towards preparedness and self-efficacy, and then transformed them into a nominal measure: 'above average' versus 'on/below average'.

This median AUC a k was a nominal measure of the association between variation in pathway k and the binary trait Y, and ranged from 0.5 (no association) to 1.0 (perfect association).

We developed a nominal measure of optimum treatment of stage III colon cancer from four study variables: received colon-cancer directed surgery within 30 days of diagnosis and received adjuvant chemotherapy within 45 days of surgery.