Sentence examples for nuisance item from inspiring English sources

A discordant outlier may be identified as of intrinsic interest, rejected as a nuisance item, or incorporated in the main data via a revised model.

Photos in the age of digital photography are just sort of a bulk nuisance item that we plan to, but never actually get around to organizing, sifting and editing.

When nuisance items were counted, food garbage, cigarette butts, litter, broken glass, and high weeds were noted with frequency (ranging from 2.3 to 14.11 items per PAC).

We introduced "method" factors in order to isolate nuisance variance due to item wording or content that was unrelated to the constructs being measured [ 15, 16, 36].

Bias, thus, might occur if the existence of DIF is due to the situation that test items measure nuisance dimensions that are not relevant to the underlying ability of interest.

Which animals could be a particular nuisance?

Since person parameters are nuisance parameters, we can estimate the item parameter trend instead of the person parameter trend by conditional maximum likelihood [ 34].

The authors believe that negatively worded items are a "cognitive nuisance" for low ability students cross-culturally and worth studying in their own right, and not just irrelevant noise that needs to be eliminated.

The tourists themselves would also be quite a nuisance, and uncouth visitors would steal items from the house as souvenirs, or help themselves to fruit from the orchards.

Attitudes (six items) consisted of two items for each of three dimensions: nuisance, e.g., "Using sunscreen before going out on the job would be a nuisance"; appearance, e.g., "Having a tan improves the way I look"; and health, e.g., "I do not think much about getting skin cancer from the sun" (response options ranged from 1 = strongly agree to 5 = strongly disagree; α = 0.71).

Age, MMSE, NPI hallucination-item, UPDRS scores were included as nuisance factors.