However, the traditional critiquing methods are limited in that they are only based on static attribute values (such as a digital camera's screen size, effectiveness pixels, optical zoom).
Details extracted from the evaluations were as follows: type of intervention, technology used, sample size, effectiveness data, utility values, data collection intervals, costing method, methods for handling uncertainty, how the difference in costs and QALYs was reported, whether incremental cost per QALY was calculated, and key findings.
The last two models are particularly useful when the purpose of studies is to estimate the "size effect" (effectiveness of a medicinal product, willingness to pay for a food attribute, etc)., exploiting the information from the confidence intervals of the measure.
This pilot study provided effect size estimates, effectiveness and safety endpoints that support a fully powered phase III trial.
Iraqi security forces have grown in size and effectiveness.
Sydney, as a rule, isn't known for the size or effectiveness of its protests – that's more of a Melbourne thing.
Most health plans have had programs, of varying size and effectiveness, that have aimed to keep their members healthy enough to stay out of hospitals.
Liechtenstein has carried out a number of significant reforms since 2001 in the financial services sector by considerably increasing the size and effectiveness of its financial supervisory mechanisms.
If these trades were, as JPMorgan maintains, hedges gone astray, it remains a mystery how the bank determined the nature, size, or effectiveness of the so-called hedges, and how, if at all, they reduced risk".
The final decision on how many troops go to Iraq will depend on the number of other foreign troops available next spring, on the size and effectiveness of Iraq's new military forces and on the violence on the ground, Pentagon officials have said.
Even in regions as historically statist as Scandinavia and southern Europe debates are beginning to emerge about the size and effectiveness of government.There are good reasons, as well as bad ones, why the state is growing; but the trend must be reversed.
