appropriate measure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofappropriateandmeasure
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appropriate
adjective
uk/əˈprəʊ.pri.ət/us/əˈproʊ.pri.ət/
suitable or right for a particular situation ...
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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 ofappropriateandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Selecting anappropriatemeasureof coupling strength depends critically on recognizing and describing the underlying affordance-effectivity match of the target system.
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Only on this basis can we get a better understanding of the mostappropriatemeasureto use in different circumstances.
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It was therefore considered anappropriatemeasureof awareness for children who had no school experience in producing such pronunciations.
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An important consideration was the need to have anappropriatemeasurefor speed of lexical retrieval.
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For each variable, the vaccine and control groups will be compared with respect to anappropriatemeasureof central tendency.
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Thus, we conclude that the simpler salience measure is theappropriatemeasure.
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Because duration was not normally distributed, the median duration was thought to be a moreappropriatemeasurefor the central value than the mean.
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Thus, refutation becomes trivially easy simply by the selection of anappropriatemeasure.
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This comparison may provide anappropriatemeasureof the output gap, but it is still incomplete, because the observed output will include stochastic errors.
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However, when applying local linear regression to the regression tree, the variance is not anappropriatemeasureas an optimality criterion.
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Moreover, they only have induction on natural numbers, which can be used to derive other induction principles via the construction of anappropriatemeasure.
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Assuming complete markets, incremental profits are a theoreticallyappropriatemeasureof incremental value.
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First, it is challenging to construct a developmentallyappropriatemeasureof conduct problems that can be applied from childhood into adulthood.
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Rather, it suggests that the development level is a moreappropriatemeasure.
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The issue of constructing anappropriatemeasureof style will be returned to later after some results have been presented.
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Because we were interested only in intake, anappropriatemeasurehad to be chosen.
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However, little empirical work has been done to test the validity of the second aspect of the growth theory, namely the testing of anappropriatemeasureof national income.
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The lack of effect on relapse rates can be understood in this context : the patients are chronically symptomatic, so improvement is anappropriatemeasure, while relapse generally is not.
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At step (v), the correction control parameter is either held fixed (possibly = 1) or chosen adaptively so as to minimize anappropriatemeasureof the error.
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Service costs were based on short run opportunity costs, a proxy for long-run marginal costs, which is widely recognized in the health economics field as theappropriatemeasure.
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