Such an approach can also be seen as a design-based alternative to the estimation procedures based on the more general class of mixed models, presenting new prospects in some scopes of application such as inference on small domains.
Leave film fans a bit of mystery and some scope for years of debate.
The increasing development of community geriatricians may offer some scope to improve continuity of care.
Foreign policy too offers some scope for change, potentially of a harmful kind.
And the Federal Trade Commission has even questioned whether some states' scope-of-practice laws might be anti-competitive, recommending that such regulations be no more stringent than patient protection requires.
For some people, the scope of such an inquiry might feel frustratingly narrow.
But even with binoculars, some of the scope of the properties eludes the visitor, partly because the great camps consisted of numerous buildings.
Early in her tenure, some questioned the scope of Mrs. Clinton's role after the appointment of highly visible special emissaries like Mr. Mitchell and Richard C. Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
These suppliers had power over some of the scope of work, expected to be paid for extra work undertaken and had better access to cost information than the management".
