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Expressivism, Relativism and the analytic equivalence test [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field 2009, 252), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished.
Maria J. Frapolli +2 more
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Withdrawal Aversion and the Equivalence Test. [PDF]
If a doctor is trying to decide whether or not to provide a medical treatment, does it matter ethically whether that treatment has already been started? Health professionals sometimes find it harder to stop a treatment (withdraw) than to refrain from starting the treatment (withhold). But does that feeling correspond to an ethical difference?
Wilkinson D, Butcherine E, Savulescu J.
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Observation equivalence as a testing equivalence
A notion of testing is developed for transition systems with divergence. The forms of testing include traces, refusals, copying and global testing. Both denotational and operational formulations of testing are given. The equivalence based on this notion of testing is shown to coincide with observation equivalence.
Samson Abramsky
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Equity in assessment: an examination of multiple-choice question tests [PDF]
Background Equity and fairness are essential elements of acceptability, one of the Ottawa Criteria for good evaluation. The similarity of results from multiple-choice question (MCQ) tests developed under the same test blueprint for comparable groups can ...
Serap Konakcı
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Testing equivalence of clustering [PDF]
In this paper, we test whether two datasets share a common clustering structure. As a leading example, we focus on comparing clustering structures in two independent random samples from two mixtures of multivariate normal distributions. Mean parameters of these normal distributions are treated as potentially unknown nuisance parameters and are allowed ...
Gao, Chao, Ma, Zongming
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The usefulness of the parameters (e.g., slope, aspect) derived from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is limited by its accuracy. In this paper, a thematic-like quality control (class-based) of aspect and slope classes is proposed.
M. V. Alba-Fernández +2 more
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Hospital emergency suitability protocol: translation and adaptation to the Brazilian culture [PDF]
Objective Translate and culturally adapt the Hospital Emergency Suitability Protocol (HESP) to Brazilian Portuguese. Method Methodological study, developed from 2019 to 2021, in an emergency hospital, and which followed the stages of translation ...
Rouslanny Kelly Cipriano de Oliveira +6 more
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Considering the state-of-the-art of forest inventory in Bulgaria, our investigation pursued development of a parsimonious generalised height-diameter model for the Scots pine plantations in the country. A number of 2-, 3- and 4-predictor candidate models
Tatiana Vassileva Stankova +4 more
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Assessing statistical similarity in dietary intakes of women of reproductive age in Bangladesh
Women of reproductive age (WRA) need adequate nutrient intakes to sustain a healthy pregnancy, support fetal growth, and breastfeed after childbirth. However, data on women's dietary intake in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) are limited, and ...
Gargi Wable Grandner +5 more
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Testing equivalences for processes [PDF]
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De Nicola, Rocco, Hennessy, Matthew
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