The 'open-question method' (for example: "have you had side effects?"), which is similar to that used in this study, may under-estimate patients' experiences of side effects while the 'rating-scale method' (in which the patient is provided with a questionnaire listing potential side effects) can drastically increase the patient's ability to report the side effects they experience [ 5].
Some former employees question his methods; for his part, he says that he has been cheated more often by westerners than locals.
This new model calls into question existing methods for establishing the reliability and validity of QOL assessment tools and suggests several new approaches for describing the psychometric properties of these scales.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Gillette patent in question concerns a method for coating razorblades.
The patent in question defines a method for a mobile device to obtain a map from one database, call up resource information such as the location of a hotel from a second database, and overlay the two sets of data.
A qualitative research approach to address the research question provided a method for in-depth exploration of this group of physicians' experiences that was context specific and that would not be possible using surveys or questionnaires.
The particular genes used in a classification ensemble produced by boosting as described above can be reasonably assumed to be the most important in the pathology of the disease in question, and a method for ranking genes based on LogitBoost-NR is described in Guile and Wang [ 10].
If our growing addiction to oil was not questioned, our methods for tackling spills were.
Each interview was conducted by the same two researchers to ensure consistency of the questions and methods for each interaction.
To address this question, we developed a method for finding similarity between disparate and noisy gene expression datasets.
A recent commentary synthetically addresses the question of the ideal method for EGFR mutation testing in lung cancer (Pao and Ladanyi, 2007), but no such data are available for K-Ras.
