Sentence examples for study opted from inspiring English sources

That is why the authors of this study opted for more fine-grained data: landline calls, which have the advantage of pinpointing geographical location (and the drawback of excluding communication on mobile phones).

This study opted EGARCH (Exponential Generalized Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) model for the purpose of analyzing asymmetric volatility spillover effects between stock and foreign exchange market.

First, the overwhelming majority of the undergraduates who participated in our study opted for a progressive and not for a proportional scheme of burden sharing.

This study opted to use the cointegration procedure of Johansen and Juselius (1990) to test the long-run relationship between the oil price and stock indexes.

Privatization of communal rangeland were further encouraged with the intentions of providing health and education services, increasing livestock productivity (Reid et al. 2014), objectives similar to what the respondents of this study opted for.

It is on the basis of these, the present study opted to investigate the effects of the socio-economic environment as constituted by per-capita income, health policy, literacy, the naira exchange rate and unemployment rates, on life expectancy of Nigerian.

Most studies opted to combine EFA and CFA (65.7%, n = 69).

In such situations, most of the previous studies opted to combine sample plot data across classes, for example vegetation types, thus ignoring the effect of vegetation types and associated information.

Some studies opted for measures of regularity, such as daily or weekly use (n = 5) [ 14, 21, 40– 42], while others opted for current (n = 4) [ 15, 41, 42, 44] or ever occurring use (n = 3) [ 15, 36, 44].

Only one of the studies specified specific scar subtyping; the other studies opted for using a severity scale from mild to severe and gave scar location along with other qualitative descriptors.

Most studies opted for current (n = 2) [ 36, 44] or ever occurring use (n = 3) [ 14, 36, 44] whereas others opted for measures of intensity, such as mild or heavy (n = 1) [ 41], or simply the number of cigarette smoked as a measure of prevalence [ 43].