The definite sorting of the PRAQ items into domains with the help of psychometric methods will be conducted after a follow-up study and is outside the scope of this article.
Because each Annual Report will have all sorts of these items, the Notes section varies more, content-wise, than any other section does.
In other words, all of its components, both hardware and software, are readily commercially available.To put it through its paces, it was given the task of sorting the items in a database a routine computing operation, except that the database in question contained a terabyte (a million megabytes) of data.
The collection and sorting of individual items by the most economic method, concentrating together all items that are going to the same place or in the same direction, involves the use of local transport, usually operated by the postal services themselves, and sorting offices.
In this way, a set of ranked data was collected for each participant, the pattern of the Q sort representing the relationship of the items to their own perspective about the health checks and the importance of primary care services in improving patient lifestyle.
Q methodology uses data reduction techniques, mainly factor analysis or principal component analysis (PCA) to identify relationships between individual Q sorts; in this study each factor (or principal component) represents a highly inter-correlated cluster of Q sorts, that is, the items were sorted in a statistically similar way.
But as she shops Lily's recommendations in this area, the service learns what sorts of items the woman actually chooses and then adapts accordingly.
"I've never been in a civilian prison that looked anything like the communal here," John said, standing inside a communal block he said had been packed with books, cases of bottled water, trash and "all sorts of items" the detainees had hoarded until the raid.
It seemed a sort of Pointillist, inductive assemblage, some of the items political and others personal, including an assortment of J.F.K.'s neckties and pieces of the scrimshaw that brought forth a whole book.
For these reasons, the order of the items -originally sorted by the authors- was preserved in our Spanish translation of the questionnaire.
California Roll Bowl: This is the sort of item the stadium needs more of because it's reflective of L.A.'s tastes and desires.
