0 a system of providing and controlling the exchange of money in a country, in which the value of money (compared to foreign money) is fixed against that of gold
1 something that is very good and is used for measuring how good other similar things are:
2 the situation in which a currency’s value is based on the price of gold:
3 something that is very good and is used for measuring how good other similar things are:
Evaluation of alignments is usually carried out with respect to some previously created gold standard alignments.
Another concern with the design of this study is reference test bias, inherent with the use of an "imperfect" gold standard.
However, as all constituent diagnostic methods have imperfect sensitivity, this ' gold standard ' cannot have perfect sensitivity either.
If a gold standard is available, even for a subset of indications, assess association of the panel findings with the gold standard.
All subjects were blinded to both the previously contoured "gold standard" anatomy outlines and each other's outlining.
Because of their strong internal validity, traditional blinded trials are still the gold standard for efficacy assessment of medical interventions.
Life-span changes, interindividual differences, and intra-individual variability in brain-behavior mappings are not adequately described or explained in relation to a "gold standard" of normality.
The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.
