A more complete picture of the reliability would require a between-day reliability study to allow the corresponding variations to affect (or not) the measures.
Inter-rater and test-retest reliabilities, which would have given a complete picture of the reliability of the SSI, could not be evaluated in our setting; they would have required repeated SSI measurements for each subject.
Quantifying this uncertainty, and capturing its effect as it propagates through the reliability analysis procedure, is important if one wants an accurate picture of the reliability of the system being studied.
With our analysis, we have managed to get a clear picture of the reliability of fertility measures that are based on retrospectively collected data when it comes to their ability to describe the childbearing of a population of a given geographical area in calendar periods prior to data collection.
If the certification process does not account for this variability, their data may be differently certified from year to year, giving a possibly false picture of the reliability and usability of their data, even though the registry is not statistically significantly better or worse.
It is shown that the individual confidence intervals, as well as the joint confidence hyperellipsoid, both based upon the assumption that the model behaves sufficiently linear in the vicinity of the least squares estimates, give a distorted picture about the reliability of the parameter estimates.
As a general picture, test retest reliability of all curves (see Table 2) and parameters (see ICC values in Table 3) was good for natural walking (NW) with the exception of trunk curves, pelvic tilt and EMG profiles, which showed moderate reliability and trunk ROM in sagittal and transverse plane, which presented a poor reliability.
The senses help us acquire certain concepts, but once we have those concepts, the senses drop out of the picture — sensory reliability becomes irrelevant.
Both formulations improve on a deterministic mixed integer linear program and give the decision maker a more complete picture of tradeoffs between cost, system reliability and other factors.
Nonetheless, this tool is based only on a static B-mode picture of the cervix and the insufficient interobserver reliability limited its further development [ 11].
There is also the question of reliability.
