planned comparison
collocation in Englishmeaningsofplanandcomparison
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plan
noun
uk/plæn/us/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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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 ofplanandcomparisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Aplannedcomparisonwas performed across the three shading arrangements for the condition where target disparity was identical to distracter disparity.
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Maintenance of a treatment gain was indicated by the lack of a significant difference in theplannedcomparison.
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Other studies were included if they were prospective or used planned comparisons of retrospective data.
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Planned comparisons for the no-flanker task indicated no significant difference between the no-flanker condition and either the congruent or incongruent flanker conditions.
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Despite this nonsignificant overall finding, we pursued the analyses of planned comparisons, because these were a priori hypothesis driven.
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Planned comparisons were used to determine specific group differences.
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Planned comparisons were conducted to evaluate whether overall child contingency levels differed by subgroup.
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The results of these procedures are not reported here as the analyses of interest are the planned comparisons.
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None of these mean-differences approached significance by planned comparisons.
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One-way analyses of variance were performed on interactions and used in planned comparisons.
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Nevertheless, a series of planned comparisons was carried out within each temporal condition to test this prediction of the two-stage model.
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Two planned comparisons were performed to examine the significance of the lexical priming effects for each of the prime types.
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A series of four planned comparisons were performed.
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The predictions of the similarity and identity hypotheses were further tested using planned comparisons.
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Results of these post hoc comparisons paralleled those of the original planned comparisons.
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Planned comparisons were used to evaluate the hypothesis that aggressive/rejected children would have longer latencies to share than nonaggressive/popular children.
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We used t tests for planned comparisons and post hoc analyses.
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The second set of planned comparisons revealed that the reported backgrounds of earned secures were similar to the reported childhood histories of insecures.
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The other two planned comparisons were not significant.
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