Sentence examples for rigorous index from inspiring English sources

A rigorous index would settle the issue of whether the current COLA adjustments are high, low or about right.

If, as the administration says, the aim is to set the COLA in the most accurate way possible, then the obvious approach is to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics develop a statistically rigorous index to track inflation as experienced by retirees.

Rigorous happiness indices may well be what policymakers in Bristol need to help the city flourish.

Other rigorous activity indexes such as mucosal healing, or other important patient-oriented parameters such as quality of life, should be evaluated in future studies, although there is much debate about their accuracy.

These results highlighted that independently from the employed index, a rigorous and appropriate sampling design taking into account different scales should always be used in order to avoid erroneous classifications and to develop effective monitoring programs.

This chapter presents a rigorous analysis of step-index fiber, which helps understand the basic properties of optical fibers.

Further studies with more objective indices and rigorous methodologies are needed.

In addition, we examined whether a measure of prioritisation derived from an algebraic difference index provided a rigorous test of prioritisation effects.

The index provides a rigorous approach to consider the value of different interventions for the purposes of economic evaluation within the aged care sector.

However, the results in this study shows that effective medium theory is accurate as only zero-order waves are to propagate through the surface profiles, which the maximum difference between zero-order effective indices method and rigorous vector method reaches to 1%.

A global matrix of interurban vessel flows was elaborated for about 600 cities using data from the Geopolis and Lloyd's Shipping Index databases and the rigorous assignment of ports to both coastal and inland urban areas.