Table 2. Target outcome, unit of analysis and sample availability for one funding call.
| Target outcome | applicant diversity,
beliefs about partial randomisation |
proposal novelty,
ambition/risk |
reviewer
burden, review consistency |
project productivity, diversity
characteristics of awardees, awardee reaction to award by partial randomisation |
| Unit of analysis | APPLICANTS | APPLICATIONS | REVIEWS | AWARDS |
| Sample available | number of investigators | number of
applications |
number of
applications x reviews per application |
number of applications x
proportion funded |
|
Illustrative numbers assuming
100 applications, 3 investigators, 4 reviews per applications, and a 10% success rate |
300 | 100 | 400 | 10 |