alternative measure

collocation in English

meaningsofalternativeandmeasure

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alternative
adjective
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/
us
/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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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 ofalternativeandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both per capita wealth and thisalternativemeasureof judicial efficiency exhibited statistically significant coefficients.
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This is analternativemeasureof preferences in the electorate for interventionist economic policies in general and generous social insurance policies more specifically.
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We include important control variables at each step, and analternativemeasureof corruption.
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Analternativemeasureof benefits is the level of benefits in the initial year of claim.
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Analternativemeasureof electoral system disproportionality is the district magnitude.
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None of the three cross-sectional analyses, however, were entirely robust to additional control variables and/or analternativemeasureof education.
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Although some of the quantitative conclusions are altered by thisalternativemeasure, the general conclusions are robust also to this change.
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Removal of ratings would force regulators to arrive at somealternativemeasureof credit risk through the typical rule-making process.
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The analysis of ouralternativemeasureof reliance on television advertising informs a similar inference - higher cost registration is associated with less spent per eligible voter on broadcast advertising.
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Analternativemeasureof the size of the adjustment cost is its welfare cost, measured as the maximum amount that a consumer would pay to permanently reduce to zero.
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Below, analternativemeasurefor examining the age of certain occupational groups will be demonstrated.
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In the model specification using thealternativemeasure, respondent-identified participation, the only significant effect is in the model predicting individual inclusion (coefficient=0.18, s. e.=0.07, p-value=0.01).
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Analternativemeasureis the conditional entropy.
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The actual tonnages imported provide analternativemeasureof changes in the volume of imports.
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We sought analternativemeasurewhich would both be more closely related to the behaviour of oil in the sea and easier to enforce.
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Are they quite satisfied that thealternativemeasurewill satisfy the societies?
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On thealternativemeasure, the balance of monetary movements, the reduction was even more.
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There again, with thisalternativemeasurewe arrive at a figure of £100 per acre.
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If the payments were excluded, analternativemeasurewould need to be added.
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I would rather turn to thisalternativemeasure, and the one remarkable thing that one notices before studying it is its backers.
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