What's the difference between measurement and mismeasurement?
Measurement
Definition:
(n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
(n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
(7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
Mismeasurement
Definition:
(n.) Wrong measurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) To demonstrate the way in which error masks effects, we studied the impact of extreme mismeasurement in analysis of strong or moderate underlying associations using computer-simulated, case-control studies (300 cases, 300 controls).
(2) Latent class analysis provides a useful framework for the analysis of epidemiological data which may have been mismeasured.
(3) A booklet just published by the National Union of Teachers, The Mismeasurement of Learning , gives 16 short essays of evidence on how tests are damaging children and primary education (see reclaimingschools.org ).
(4) Profound mismeasurement, which, in these studies, probably typifies measures of dietary exposures in general and of fat in particular may, in part, explain this lack of agreement.
(5) Important risk relationships can be concealed, despite careful design and analysis if there is substantial mismeasurement of exposure.
(6) We consider three commonly-used statistical tests for assessing the association between an explanatory variable and a measured, binary, or survival-time, response variable, and investigate the loss in efficiency from mismodelling or mismeasuring the explanatory variable.
(7) Analysis by Number Cruncher Politics published last week concludes that the relative proportions of “Labour” and “Conservative” Ukip defectors had been mismeasured – more Ukip voters had come from Labour than the pollsters thought, and fewer from the Tories.
(8) The first is to use external information about the extent of mismeasurement to adjust estimates of the effects of exposure.
(9) Corrected for mismeasurement, the corresponding odds ratios were 2.90 (95% CI 1.42-5.93), 2.57 (95% CI 1.24-5.32), and 0.36 (95% CI 0.17-0.71), respectively.
(10) The major disadvantage of the adjustment strategy is its sensitivity to incorrect specification of mismeasurement structure.
(11) With maximum likelihood theory, the repeat data were used to produce odds ratio estimates of relative risk corrected for mismeasurement.
(12) When mismeasurement of the exposure variable is anticipated, epidemiologic cohort studies may be augmented to include a validation study, where a small sample of data relating the imperfect exposure measurement method to the better method is collected.