Sentence examples for population of trial from inspiring English sources
A genetic algorithm tries to find an optimal answer by evolving a population of trial answers in a way that mimics biological evolution.
The algorithm – denoted as CMLPSA Corrected Multi-Levell & Multimplementsmulaned advancedg) – implementsearchdvanced search mechanism where each candidate design is selected from a population of trial points randomly generated.
Participants had a similar age range and socio-economic characteristics to the general population of trial participants (poor socio-economic circumstances and high levels of unemployment).
This model was used because it provides a more conservative estimate of variance and generates more accurate inferences about a population of trials beyond the set of trials included in this review [ 17].
To compare firing rates during changes of mind with firing rates on other trials, we had to choose a comparison population of trials and a matched window of time (since firing rates were not perfectly stable over the delay).
The REM assumption that trials included in a meta-analysis are a random sample from a large population of trials would seem to be less defendable in the context of systematic reviews, which, by definition, aim at the inclusion of all published and unpublished trials considered as the population from which this assumption is being inferred (Villar et al, 2001).
Our decision to focus upon trauma randomized trials was based upon two factors: 1) allowing comparison with previous studies evaluating this population of trials, and 2) practicality of limiting the number of trials to a sufficiently manageable number to optimize the efficiency of study completion and research resource utilization within our Departments.
This technique is based on what Thompson & Pocock [ 11] have described as "the peculiar premise that the trials done are representative of some hypothetical population of trials, and on the unrealistic assumption that the heterogeneity between studies can be represented by a single variance".
Other data including the population of each trial, sample size of the trial and patients with severe sepsis, and resuscitation endpoints were extracted.
The target population of this trial is waiting for penetrating keratoplasty or lamellar endothelial keratoplasty.
We derived the raw event rates from individual studies and constructed 2×2 tables with raw number of events and total population of the trial.
