(At least 300 black journalists left the print media in 2007, and there's every indication that 2008 was worse. Richard Prince's Journal-isms column at www.mije.org is an ongoing record of attrition).
Professor Chang says that rather than losing mainly students from disadvantaged backgrounds or with lackluster records, the attrition rate can be higher at the most selective schools, where he believes the competition overwhelms even well-qualified students.
In a review of randomised controlled trials of palliative care, Thomas et al stated that they "recorded an attrition analysis as performed only if the authors reported an analysis assessing if the intervention and control arms were differentially affected by attrition".
The deployment data were taken through an iterative cleaning process including matching nursing records from the staff returns and staff details data that are described above, elimination of duplicates, and also nursing attrition records were removed so as to provide the best available representation of the current in-service nursing workforce.
First, any Soldier completing less than 10-weeks of AIT will have the reason for attrition recorded, and will not be followed during active duty.
A semi-open stylar canal is a common feature found in other ancient angiosperms (Endress and Igersheim, 2000) and it would be interesting to evaluate if papillar secretory cells restricted to the margins also provide a similar pollen restriction mechanism, in contrast to the typical pollen tube attrition recorded in the style in evolutionarily derived angiosperms.
MBNA, with its track record of low customer attrition, is likely to remain selective about accepting new customers.
The primary end point will be measured from the medical record audit, thus minimising attrition.
Researchers involved in longitudinal studies should record the extent of attrition in their studies, and details of those who cease to participate and their reasons for doing so.
The problem with bottom-up counts, like the FBI collection that begins with police records, is a severe attrition rate for data as it climbs toward the national light, as deaths go unreported or unrelayed from one level to another.
