Sentence examples for preliminary explanatory from inspiring English sources

The preliminary explanatory IRT analysis carried out in (Hole et al. 2015) showed that for the Norwegian TIMSS 2011 grade 8 mathematics data, the dependence on formulas (corresponding to the category F) led to a relatively large average increase in item difficulty.

Descriptive codes were collated into themes and a preliminary explanatory framework devised.

Broadly, our findings support a preliminary explanatory model on factors related to the well baby visits for Medicaid-enrolled infants.

The study objective was to identify factors related to the number of WBVs received by Medicaid-enrolled infants in the first three years of life and to present a preliminary explanatory model.

We used an ecological model of health [ 12] and existing literature [ 7, 10, 13- 16] to construct a preliminary explanatory model of factors related to the receipt of WBVs for Medicaid-enrolled infants.

After a preliminary explanatory model was reached, the categories were read again within the context of the original transcripts (re-contextualisation) and discussed with the facilitator to ensure the interpretation was true to the intended meaning of the participants.

The synthesised data were examined to identify explanatory accounts, and preliminary typologies were developed [ 19].

A preliminary factor analysis of the explanatory variables produced a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measamplingsadequacyadequacy of 0.81, thereby confirming the expected high degree of inter-correlation within the data.

Genome reference sequences are descriptive because they are "constructed largely without motivation by hypotheses to be tested or traditional explanatory questions" but rather as preliminary to such work (Ankeny 2000, p. S267).

We, therefore, evaluated the strength of the relationship between TLB and each spectral variable using correlation and preliminary regression analysis to select the best explanatory variable for model development.

The objective of this paper is to provide benchmark test results, explanatory shell finite element models, and preliminary Direct Strength Method prediction for cold-formed steel lipped channels undergoing torsion dominated by warping response.