Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Cormac McCarthy SUTTREE -- a quasi-experimental writer who appeared on Oprah!. From Wordnik.com. [“Experimental writing”] Reference
We focus on quasi-experimental and experimental studies whose results provide a basis for drawing causal inference. From Wordnik.com. [Hanson on Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
As Lieberson puts the point, "quasi-experimental research almost inevitably runs into a profound selectivity issue" 41. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Only one large-scale quasi-experimental study (Perry and Rosen) fails to show a relationship between health insurance and health, and this study may not have adequate power to rule out the possibility that health insurance improves health. From Wordnik.com. [Hanson on Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The results of small quasi-experimental studies provide only mixed evidence that health insurance affects health, while larger quasi-experimental studies and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment provide consistent evidence that health insurance improves health. From Wordnik.com. [Hanson on Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Not only am I taking part in a quasi-experimental fiction collaboration, I also have two youngsters who, as new middle school students, are learning how to plan and write more complex essays, and a fiancee who is headed back to college and doing the same as the kids, though on a higher level. From Wordnik.com. [Are Outlines for You? « Write Anything] Reference
That data was subjected to a rigorous, quasi-experimental, "difference in differences" analysis that estimates management impacts at each type of school by making use of information on how much students were learning both before and after the management change while controlling for the students 'characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Educational Rewards] Reference
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for research. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Film (1965), a twenty-minute quasi-experimental short written by Samuel Beckett. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
Essentially what makes it a quasi-experimental design is that it lacks a randomized control. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
I would just hate for us to continue using quasi-experimental designs as the gold standard for evaluation. From Wordnik.com. [NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit] Reference
Without off-putting jargon, Levitt and Dubner explain how regressions can give you quasi-experimental results. From Wordnik.com. [DealBook] Reference
One way to explore such a question in an almost natural quasi-experimental setting is to focus on tourists 'behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
I would just hate for us to continue using quasi-experimental designs as the gold standard for evaluation. qualitative research. From Wordnik.com. [NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit] Reference
Complicated techniques obscure, rather than illuminate, the inherent strengths of experimental or quasi-experimental comparisons. From Wordnik.com. [orgtheory.net] Reference
Connected Nation could have conducted a proper programmatic evaluation using established and accepted quasi-experimental techniques. From Wordnik.com. [Indybay newswire] Reference
Congealing alt-country, quasi-experimental and neo-folk, the album genre-blazes across the band's decade and a half creative trajectory. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from The Sun] Reference
The results were to become the foundation for a formal research protocol to conduct a quasi-experimental study utilizing control and treatment groups. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Effects of fully-established Sure Start Local Programmes on 3-year-old children and their families living in England: a quasi-experimental observational study. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
I am not suggesting that we rely on quasi-experimental or experimental design for BoP impact evaluation, nor do I disregard the importance of case study research. From Wordnik.com. [NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Eradicating Poverty through Profit] Reference
It is near impossible to be awarded one of these highly competitive grants unless you have a quasi-experimental research design as part of the overall project design. From Wordnik.com. [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference
The results of this study, and the issues they raised, will guide our expectations for an ongoing quasi-experimental longitudinal study currently underway in our laboratory. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
A quasi-experimental design, with the control group studied first, was used to examine the effect of cup feeding for preterm infants on breastfeeding outcomes after discharge. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Her trainers went to work with a bevy of clandestine, quasi-experimental therapies that have helped and been greatly aided by several days of weather-related race postponements. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
There will be a combined analysis across the five community intervention projects with outcomes compared to a comparison group using a cross-sectional, quasi-experimental design. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
"Set aside 20 percent of TAH fiscal year funds for competitive grants ... to independent researchers ... to assess and evaluate projects in experimental and quasi-experimental ways.". From Wordnik.com. [National Coalition for History] Reference
Longitudinal and quasi-experimental studies have identified a set of civic learning opportunities (such as simulations of civic or political activities, helping others, and debating ethical issues) that promote civic outcomes among youth. From Wordnik.com. [PewResearch.org | All Feeds] Reference
Forget, and in this he pretends to bring out the true thought of St. Thomas, suggests a sort of mystical and quasi-experimental union of the soul with the Paraclete, differing in degree but not in kind from the intuitive vision and beatific love of the elect. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The album also might have improved, however slightly, if they'd left off the embarrassing quasi-experimental keyboard jam, 'Blü Sön,' a 44-second excursion to Planet Shame that makes the Byrds '' Moog Raga 'seem like a monolith of pulsing electronic genius. From Wordnik.com. [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference
Researchers led by Brian D'Onofrio, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, used a number of statistical and quasi-experimental approaches to explore the underlying causal mechanisms responsible for the association between maternal SDP and offspring AA. From Wordnik.com. [Medindia Health News] Reference
For example, evaluation of the mass media campaign effect on population health was based only on the results of a single quasi-experimental study, and evaluation of the pedometer program effect on population health was based on a meta-analysis that included only 277 participants in total. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Medicine: New Articles] Reference
The award competition promotes excellence in short-term, quasi-experimental evaluations studying the impact of learning and assistive technologies (AT) to improve educational outcomes for all students, with a particular focus on students with special needs. eSchool News, 7920 Norfolk Ave. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Using a quasi-experimental design, the investigators selected second-grade children from two school sites located in the same geographic vicinity and with similar demographic characteristics, to ensure the two groups of children were as similar as possible apart from their music experience. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
This report released today (January 9, 2009) consists of a multi-disciplinary collaboration examining the program's technical aspects, management and goals, and policy components, as well as a quasi-experimental statistical evaluation of crime reports in order to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the program's effectiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Schneier on Security] Reference
Classrooms are, by their very nature, quasi-experimental, with confounding variables too numerous to be deal with statistically in a completely satisfactory manner (no matter what Cook. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
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