The validity of the community consultation relies very much on how the community of interest was defined for the study, and how representative the participants of the discussion group were of this community.
To test the validity of estimating community SAD from GC-TRFLP data we have created a range of artificial communities by drawing sequences at random from a public database and assigning different abundance values to these sequences by using one of several known distributions.
In conclusion, in this study of school age Canadian students we addressed two major methodological issues of social epidemiological research: the validity of composite community level measures and the possibility of structural confounding.
The goal of this study was to create and assess the validity of a community-based questionnaire collecting data on untreated surgically correctable disease throughout Burera District, Rwanda, to accurately plan for surgical services at a district hospital.
However, there is little research exploring the validity of expectations that community groups can take on such responsibility.
The estimated score has good face validity as a measure of community SES as evidenced by a correlation of 0.47 with years of maternal education.
To study the validity of a recentlydeveloped community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) severity prediction rulein estimating mortality, to determine its utility in decision makingregarding hospitalization, and to assess factors influencing thisdecision.
These results demonstrate the validity of local detection of communities that is processed in an analogy to memory recall in the brain.
Although one previous study has examined the validity of the SPADI in community volunteers [ 3], it did not validate the SPADI against a health-related quality of life questionnaire or shoulder range of motion.
To evaluate the psychometric properties and validity of an expanded set of community enfranchisement items that are suitable for computer adaptive testing.
