This is analogous to obtaining an unbiased estimate of the effect of intent-to-treat by comparing outcomes among all subjects in each arm of a randomized trial subject to noncompliance.
For the primary data analysis to determine the effect of the intervention, an intent to treat (ITT) approach will be used, with both community and individual as the unit of analysis.
To assess the effect of the intervention on intent for adopting CHD risk reduction strategies, we again made between group comparisons post-clinic visit using Rao-Scott chi-square tests and, subsequently, mixed effects logistic regression models to adjust for the baseline differences in education and the natural effect of clustering of patients within providers.
Regardless of the intent, the effect of the laws in Kansas has been to keep people away from the polls.
Indeed, Reeves's famous Anacin ad featuring an animated hammer pounding inside one's head could function as a metaphor for both the intent and the effect of late-50's advertising in general.
One big danger for risk-averse charities: it will not be an organisation's "intent" but the "effect of the expenditure" that sweeps them into electoral law, so they can never know what might be challenged.
But the effect of the programming — and maybe its intent, analysts say — was to link the protesters to a growing sense of lawlessness, while the channel delivered regular bulletins on steps the military and the government were taking to restore order.
Thus, Fred Pincus writes that "[t]he key element in structural discrimination is not the intent but the effect of keeping minority groups in a subordinate position" (1994: 84).
It was seven hours long — something like Douglas Sirk by way of Robert Wilson — which contributed to the effect of the conscious dreams that Mnouchkine is intent on building, gesture by gesture.
In parallel, several research groups are working on ways to modulate the effect of miRNAs in tumor biology with the intent of developing new and novel therapeutic targets.
Both the intent behind and the effect of these conditions is to exclude the Taliban's most important leaders and constituencies.
