We calculated standardised heights and BMIs for each age and standardised velocities for each interval so that a standardised measure of effect could be compared across different ages/intervals.
The IHME study finds that in 2010, high blood pressure was to blame for 9.4 million early deaths and 7% of DALYs (disability-adjusted life years – a standardised measure of the amount of poor health a person suffers).
And although anyone – driver or passenger – can have a bad day, it is valuable to see a person's average rating, namely to describe, with a simple and standardised measure, how good a passenger or driver he or she is.
The BEBQ is the first standardised measure of infant appetite designed to characterise appetitive traits that might confer susceptibility to excess weight gain.
Unfortunately, the Reflex data does not contain any standardised measure of degree grade, identify individual universities or information on the graduates socio-economic background.
Consequently, we have compared them using a standardised measure of the number of projects per 100 relevant establishments in 2008, i.e. the year in the middle of the period we are examining.
Site Index, which is a standardised measure of height productivity for a site, is defined for P. radiata as the mean top height (the average height of the 100 largest diameter trees per hectare) at age 20 years.
Due to the wide range of livestock species owned by households, in order to make valid comparisons, data on the total number of livestock were computed to a standardised measure - tropical livestock units (TLUs).
Relative growth rate is a standardised measure of growth with the benefit of avoiding, as far as possible, the inherent differences in scale between contrasting organisms so that their performances can be compared on an equitable basis (Hunt 1990, p. 6).
f) Environmental stability - the greater the instability in a country the less relevance a standardised measure of performance is valid.
EQ5D is a standardised measure of the course of health processes.
