Sentence examples for use of standard measures from inspiring English sources
The use of standard measures may prove more useful but again people may not often be prepared to take that additional trouble.
While numerous livelihood factors were examined, few were measured using standardized or validated instruments for particular constructs, again reflecting the dearth of research conducted in this area to-date and perhaps the lack of experience among clinical investigators with use of standard measures more out of social science traditions.
Further, we acknowledge some limitations to our use of standard measures.
The use of standard measures presumes a universality of definition and understanding which is inappropriate.
Continuous variables will be summarised by use of standard measures of central tendency and dispersion, including median and inter-quartile ranges given potential skewness in the data.
The POS open question was popular amongst both patients and clinical staff, and such questions also resonate with the need for more individualised assessment alongside the use of standard measures [ 38].
In the case of the negative pressure wave method, apart from the standard pressure transmitters to measure the pipeline pressure, also the use of non-standard measuring devices, conventionally the so-called correctors, is considered.
It was found that the studies were largely descriptive in design, (including both quantitative and qualitative research), with a wide variation in sample size and a lack of use of recognised standard measures and consideration of key outcomes.
We compared each pair of trees using normalized versions of standard measures of topological error (normalized Robinson-Foulds distance (nRF)) and branch-length error (normalized branch-score distance (nBS)) [ 19] (see Additional file 8: Supplementary Methods).
The use of validated, standard measures for many of the behavioral and psychosocial measures will enable comparison of the data with other studies.
It may be helpful for studies to use at least a subset of standard measures so that study results can be more easily compared.
