Direct comparison definition

Direct comparison means that the price of a replacement item is compared with the price of a missing item without any quality adjustment;

Examples of Direct comparison in a sentence

  • Direct comparison between NWAU16 price and activity to last year’s NWAU15 is therefore not applicable.

  • Direct comparison of seabird avoidance effect between two types of tori-lines in experimental longline operations.

  • Direct comparison of community response to road traffic noise and to aircraft noise.

  • Direct comparison of two rankings is problematic when one accounts for the significance of score differences.

  • Direct comparison of the organic results with Tier 1 PCLs or GWP-Ind MSCs is possible because the organics detected are not typically found in natural environments; therefore, any detected concentration represents a compound that was introduced into the environment.

  • Direct comparison, on a rate per square metre basis, with rents for other similar facilities has also been considered however such evidence is limited in availability.

  • Direct comparison of the mechanisms and capacity of processing and presentation of long peptides between different APC populations may be helpful in designing improved strategies for peptide vaccination.

  • Direct comparison of the results is difficult without normalizing the data to the value for a metal such as Al (assuming minimal Al dissolution although the solution pH was near 11).

  • Direct comparison of absolute values of expression between any of the five tissues is not possible, as each tissue represents an independent sequencing run and, therefore, differences in abolute values could be caused by a number of external variables.