Sentence examples for sectional measures from inspiring English sources
The 'repeated cross section' measures refer to the fact that multiple cross sectional measures are made with different patients in each cluster for each of the sampling time periods [ 55], as recently used in surgical patients across three hospitals [ 58].
However, it is important to note that although the longitudinal measure of adherence provided a more complete picture of women's non-use of gel than cross sectional measures, it was still constrained by relying on self-reported or proxy measures and may well over estimate true adherence.
First, we use a measure of job strain that better represents individuals' long-term work conditions rather than the one-period (cross sectional) measure.
Moreover, most previous studies use a one-period (cross sectional) measure of job strain which may only reflect temporary effects, or small samples that are not necessarily representative of the population, while other studies focus only on some stressful occupations.
On the other hand, three-dimensional measurements, based on three cross-sectional measures [ 6, 11, 12], are a time efficient method to assess BMLs with good construct validity but include a lot of healthy bone.
First, variability of health status as experienced by individuals is only crudely measured by cross-sectional measures such as the standard deviation of age at death.
These results suggest that variation in longitudinal change of some brain volume measures may have different underlying genetic and environmental architecture from variation in repeat cross-sectional measures, which could have implications for intervention strategies for age-related illness associated with brain morphology.
Since the mortality associated with CD28 down-regulation per se appears to be independent of concurrent physiologic measures, the unrecognized inclusion of patients with significant proportions of CD4+CD28null cells in earlier analyses may have confounded assessments based solely on cross-sectional measures of pulmonary function (i.e., increase the "noise to signal ratio").
First, this study examined the life span biopsychological changes of each Sasang type with pooled cross-sectional measures.
Cross-sectional measures were also used from this sample to predict deliberate self-harm using logistic regression [ 45].
Incidence assays are an additional potential source of data which may strengthen estimates by providing cross-sectional measures of incidence.
