Sentence examples for use of discrepancy from inspiring English sources

15 16 This is the first study to longitudinally examine the use of discrepancy in ECOG as a predictor of anxiety and depression in cancer patients in a comparative assessment over time.

The present study is the first to prospectively investigate the use of discrepancy between patient-rated and oncologist-rated ECOG PS to gauge psychological distress in patients with cancer.

With respect to Method 2, Method 1 has the advantage of allowing the use of various discrepancy functions whereas Method 2 requires very specific test statistic functions; this means that different aspects of the probabilistic model can be studied with Method 1 rather than only the t functions that characterize the hypothesized probabilistic distribution.

Xue and He(121) make a different use of the discrepancy and global instability indices in their studies of the nonlinear optical material LiNbO3.

The finding that TDC-anamnestic (patient assessing daily functioning) indicates less improvement than TDC-clinical from the clinician, supports the use of the discrepancy rule.

Separately added items from clinician and assessor, and only considering those from the assessor, yielded, with the least frequent use of the discrepancy rule (3.4% of the patients), the most conservative success rate at LM.

The criterion of TDC ≤ −0.379 (in combination with the occasional use of the discrepancy rule) for distinguishing between a successful/unsuccessful treatment, has proven to be reliable on five grounds.

Other strengths of our study were the use of unintentional discrepancies (MTE) and their potential for harm (pADE) as outcome measures as well as a cost benefit analysis.

Secondly, certain patients were classified as having either large or moderate improvement, depending on which DAS28 definition was used; this type of discrepancy occurred at a similar frequency with both definitions, and would not be expected to result in more favourable results with one definition vs the other.

Consequently, we investigated the possible use of the Morozov discrepancy principle to derive a proper stopping condition for the LPIC iterations.

In this section, we investigate the possible use of the Morozov discrepancy rule [17, 22] to develop a proper criterion for stopping the iterations of the LPIC detector before the noise enhancement effect starts dominating the solution.