measurement scale

collocation in English

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measurement
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/
us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/
us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition ofmeasurementandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Pathological laughing and crying following stroke: validation of ameasurementscaleand a double-blind treatment study.
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First, it is clear that the notion of "intact" performance always depends on the sensitivity of themeasurementscale.
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It is unwarranted if it reflects only the nature of themeasurementscale.
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The third class of constants are those purely instrumental factors that permit the conversion from onemeasurementscaleto another.
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Predicted values were converted from the log scale to the originalmeasurementscale, resulting in curvilinear trend lines.
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Philosophical problems associated with uninformative priors are associated with the choice of an appropriate metric, ormeasurementscale.
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Coding is a simple linear transformation of the originalmeasurementscale.
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Generally speaking, qualitative data is considered more descriptive and can be subjective in comparison to having a continuousmeasurementscalethat produces numbers.
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A fractal is by definition a curve whose complexity changes withmeasurementscale.
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Several well-tested measurement scales of social networks and support, mental health and physical ability were used, although no clinical measures were included.
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The rationale, development and validation of these measurement scales forms the core of the discussion here.
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Simple transforming of preferences to different measurement scales may result in unintended obscurities.
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The selection of measurement scales was constrained by the requirement that they should be culturally appropriate and by the languages of the participants.
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These discrepancies across databases may relate to differences in measurement scales.
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A model of the quality of life and its associated measurement scales should be based on concepts derived from older people themselves.
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This is probably due to a lack of validated measurement scales for assessing the construct 'selfdirection' in language learning.
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These questions were factor analysed; then the measurement scales developed from two of the factors were used as input measures into equations (2) and (3) above.
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Formal measurement scales were not used in the questionnaire design because data were required that would compliment the rich descriptive data to be collected in the subsequent interview survey.
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