paired comparison
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpairandcomparison
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pair
noun[C]
uk/peər/us/per/
two things of the same appearance and size that are intended to be used together, or something that consists of two parts ...
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comparison
noun[C or U]
uk/kəmˈpær.ɪ.sən/us/kəmˈper.ɪ.sən/
the act of comparing two or more people ...
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(Definition ofpairandcomparisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Clinically, the groups did not differ on a visualpairedcomparisontask of faces.
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In the following section these differences will be analysed usingpairedcomparisontests.
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This preference test was performed using apairedcomparisontest in black glasses coded with random three-digit numbers.
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Modeling within subject dependencies in ordinalpairedcomparisondata.
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For eachpairedcomparison, two models are reported.
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In thepairedcomparisonapproach, two full or partial (where only a subset of product attributes are shown) profiles are presented side by side.
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In apairedcomparison, respondents choose their preferred option out of a set of two choices and indicate the strength of their preference in a numeric or semantic scale.
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At the same time, these countries provide an idealpairedcomparisonbecause they span a broad spectrum of the observed responses, as measured by the conventional view of policy change.
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In psychology literature, it is often referred to aspairedcomparison.
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Individual chicks varied in terms of the optokinetic nystagmus gain but since data could be analyzed by paired comparisons, significant differences could be detected.
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We learn about rotational grazing, ridge tillage, hoop houses for hogs, and about conducting robust on-farm research using randomized, replicated, narrow-strip paired comparisons.
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We made paired comparisons between analyses using a single marker, two markers and six markers.
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Across conditions, participants received two paired comparisons contrasting an animal seen during the familiarization trials with a novel animal.
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In both projects, research is conducted as replicated trials with treatments assigned more-or-less at random to blocks, such as with alternating paired comparisons.
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For paired comparisons, a similar randomization procedure was followed, but restricting permutations to the groups defined in the contrast.
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Total context sortings in the different paired comparisons were between 270 and 720.
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