Sentence examples for using a continuous measure from inspiring English sources

Times were dichotomised to make comparisons across studies possible, but the categorisation may have produced a weaker measure of true balance ability than would have been achieved using a continuous measure.

Remoteness was assessed using a continuous measure, the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia.

Finally, these analyses were repeated using a continuous measure of current depressive symptoms in fathers instead of a clinical diagnosis.

I would suggest using a continuous measure of performance (e.g. the differences between true and estimated methylation levels) or to allow for a minimum deviation.

Rankings of both the aggregate and CGR denominators using the dichotomous threshold were comparable to those using a continuous measure (0.96 and 0.90).

Using a continuous measure of exposure, a 10 ng/m increase in carcinogenic PAH level was associated with an AOR of 1.22 (95% CI, 1.07 1.39).

Our recommendation to stratify measures by CGR and to award partial credit using a continuous measures are consistent with proposals made at a 2006 AHRQ funded conference (25).

Therefore, it may be worthwhile to use a continuous measure as primary outcome, and use clinically useful dichotomizations as informative secondary outcomes.

All our regression analyses use a continuous measure of over- and undereducation.

In columns (4) to (6) we use a continuous measure of size: log number of employees.

Next, we use a continuous measure of selectivity defined as the fraction of applicants to a college who were admitted (so that a lower value of the measure indicates a more selective institution).18 The lower-right panel of Figure 4 shows that selectivity is strongly related to class rank but that there is no discontinuous change in average college selectivity at the TTP cutoff.