The establishment, history, and degree of representativeness of the national disease surveillance points system were explained elsewhere [ 15, 16].
The reading grid allowed for a total of 30 possible points: 1) Representativeness of the sample of patients (12 points): number of practitioners or specialists, sampling method description and validation if any, geographic distribution, population covered.
Because the spatial representativeness of a point-scale soil moisture station is rather limited, a station network needs setting up for scale-matching validation of satellite-based soil moisture products.
Measurement invariance depends on the degree of representativeness of the sample in the population being studied.
Briefly, the NOS allots a maximum of nine points based on the representativeness of the intervention and control groups, ascertainment of intervention, absence of outcomes at study start, comparability of groups based on study design and analysis, blinded assessment/record linkage to confirm outcomes, sufficient length of follow-up and sufficiently low withdrawal rate.
First, the DSP and MCMS systems are all based on surveillance points; even the use of advanced sampling methods cannot fully guarantee representativeness of the data.
Weather radars provide distributed rainfall estimates with high spatial and temporal resolutions and overcome the scarce representativeness of point-based rainfall for regions characterized by large gradients in rainfall climatology.
Representativeness - A relevant concern for working on non-administrative data relates the representativeness of the dataset.
This therefore affects the representativeness of the facilities surveyed.
In addition, the representativeness of the network was evaluated.
