Sentence examples for the substantive analysis from inspiring English sources
Another doubt about country rankings is that headline-grabbing hype may overshadow the substantive analysis that backs up such rankings.A tricky challenge for the cross-country comparisons is to decide how to weigh each indicator.
The substantive analysis is then conducted after the statistical DIF analysis.
The substantive analysis usually involves item reviews by subject-area experts (e.g., curriculum specialists or item writers) in an attempt to interpret the factors that may contribute to differential performance between specific groups of test takers.
The substantive analysis was a multivariable Cox model with the composite endpoint of death or nonfatal myocardial infarction, and with predictor variables specified a priori.
24 Failure to do so may mean that the missing at random assumption is not plausible and that the results of the substantive analysis are biased.
It is sensible to include a wide range of variables in imputation models, including all variables in the substantive analysis, plus, as far as computationally feasible, all variables predictive of the missing values themselves and all variables influencing the process causing the missing data, even if they are not of interest in the substantive analysis.
Despite the absence of any substantive analysis in the body of the estimate, the "key judgments" of the estimate published in early December 2007 did address the question of Iran's intentions.
Once items are identified as functioning differentially (among the studied groups), substantive analysis should be implemented – for example, use of cultural or linguistic experts may be useful in shedding light on why DIF occurred.
What makes the document serious is that there is a detailed substantive analysis of the issue of poverty in the United States today and the conditions of the poor.
In its ruling, the Grand Chamber said Russia had not offered a "substantive analysis" for keeping the decision to close its investigation classified.
He felt that the links between race and achievement were given substantive analysis, but found the lessons mentioned in Outliers to be "oddly anticlimactic, even dispiriting".
