reliable measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandmeasure
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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measure
noun
uk/ˈmeʒ.ər/us/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofreliableandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, experimental effects on a highly sensitive andreliablemeasuremay be obscured by averaging with less precise measures.
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It is a morereliablemeasureof brain function than the spectral power of this rhythm.
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Establishing a valid,reliablemeasureof writing apprehension.
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Hence, we believe that our dependent variable is a relativelyreliablemeasureof strategic reaction to a recognized wasted-vote situation.
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Studies of mouse vision require areliablemeasureof retinal sensitivity without encumbering effects of anesthesia.
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These individual differences suggest that clinicians should not consider facial expressions alone areliablemeasureof pain, much less use them to determine medication dosages.
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The results suggest that this is a valid andreliablemeasurethat can predict the development of a medically unexplained syndrome after acute infection.
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Given the cross-linguistic design, hours of exposure was not a sufficientlyreliablemeasurefor my purposes.
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Or, to put it another way, the apparent-time construct provides an excellent andreliablemeasureof the directions of communal change.
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This normalization is performed so that the correlation coefficient becomes a morereliablemeasureof similarity between line projections.
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However, the behavioral data were far less variable and might be a morereliablemeasureof the transfer mechanism responsible for temporal resolution abilities.
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Consequently, there is a need to identify and refine the core determinants and develop a valid andreliablemeasureof patient satisfaction with antipsychotic medication.
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Future studies should endeavor to control for time of day and to expand the number of baseline samples collected because this may provide a morereliablemeasure.
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The reports of these two specialists were assessed by further professional workers, and areliablemeasure of each of the thirty-nine symptoms considered was thus obtained.
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There is a need for areliablemeasureof cognitive processes that are influenced by cross-cultural experiences and which accounts for variations in individuals' cognitive capacities.
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Before under taking the two-step procedure, each variable representing a given domain was averaged across time points to provide areliablemeasureof that variable over time.
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Any proxy for hospitalization created from the range of measures reported, moreover, would have been a much cruder and lessreliablemeasure, and difficult to interpret.
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Probe question number 2, then, appears to be a morereliablemeasureto further distinguish aware from unaware learners.
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There is noreliablemeasureof the total tax and other duties lost to evasion.
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I do not accept that a percentage is areliablemeasureof achievement.
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