Sentence examples for substantive heterogeneity from inspiring English sources
To obviate poor power or sensitivity in significance testing to detect interactions that are substantively important, interactions with a p value lower than 0.15 were deemed to indicate substantive heterogeneity of effects that should be further investigated.
We demonstrate that general practitioners exhibit substantive heterogeneity in preferences for quality improvement programs, notably for pay-for-performance.
Findings from a recent meta-analysis indicate that there is substantive heterogeneity in prodromal symptom profiles and duration preceding an index manic episode (Van Meter et al. 2016).
We found substantive heterogeneity in the risk of psychological distress between and within ethnic groups.
When substantive heterogeneity was found (p < 0.10 or I-squared > 30%), sources were investigated.
Although the focus of the study was on the five most populous cities and all SA1s were, by definition, of urban character, there remained substantive geographical heterogeneity in residential population density between SA1s within Central Business Districts (CBDs), along the coastline and throughout more distant suburbs.
For the data sets tested, we find that accommodating any scale heterogeneity has little or no impact on substantive model results, that the role of constants generally decreases as the survey progresses, and that there is evidence of significant attribute level (as opposed to scale) heterogeneity across choice tasks.
The fact that swabbed area explained between 56 and 62% and total sample size between 23 and 38% of the total heterogeneity in the chilling true effect size, indicates that differences in experimental design greatly affect our substantive conclusion about the effect of chilling on Salmonella occurrence.
Furthermore, considerable inter-provincial heterogeneity between the provinces regarding quantities and types of individual POs dispensed continued, including the remarkably substantive (i.e., three-fold) differences in POA dispensing levels between the highest (Alberta) and lowest (Quebec) province.
The methodology is of substantive interest since the effects of other covariates are jointly estimated with the random effects, e.g., spatially structured and unstructured heterogeneity effects [ 16].
