With only two time points, the analysis reduces to a test of the difference between treatment groups in gains or losses in the outcome variable between baseline and 6-month follow up.
"We will not allow our children to be reduced to a single test score," said Jane Hirschmann, a leader of the movement for alternative measures of student achievement.
No Child Left Behind held that what schools taught or children learned could be reduced to a standardized test score.
A discussion on nuisance parameters is also provided in Section 4. When the payload R and the distribution parameters θ={θ k,l },k∈{1,…,K},l∈{2,…,64} are known, problem (2) is reduced to a statistical test between two simple hypotheses.
Permutation tests remain valid for a multivariate response that can be reduced to a single-valued test statistic (Good 1994, Chap. 5).
Were they alive, they might be horrified to find that this once-unthinkable ceremony has been reduced to a vehicle for tests of triathlon-like machismo.
This is what happens when success is reduced to a hollow standardized test score or rating that is influenced by so many factors beyond the control of teachers and administrators.
Here we are, administrators, teachers, students, and parents, focused on developing the social, emotional, and academic skills of our children so they grow up to be happy, healthy, and successful, but it is all reduced to a single standardized test score.
Patients have been reduced to a collection of lab test results.
Finally, the gene set required for correct classification was optimized and reduced to a minimum to facilitate routine testing.
