'Sensitivity analysis' aims to investigate whether the results of important analyses are sensitive or robust to violations of the assumptions by performing analyses addressing a specific clinical question under contrasting assumptions.
Two such contrasting assumptions are the normative and the subjective.
Despite their contrasting assumptions, the above studies generally yielded consistent results, estimating maximal activity during spindles to the white matter underlying parietal and frontal cortices.
However, contrasting assumptions on how well breeders can predict the value of crosses result in very different optima.
Some authors may argue that using both quantitative and qualitative methods creates tensions since they are based on contrasting assumptions about social phenomena.
It breaks the limitation of small elastic parameter contrast assumption in conventional pre-stack seismic inversion.
In contrast, assumptions of cost increases from improved management of type 2 diabetes made by Mason et al. in the evaluation of the telephone based counselling intervention appear unrealistic [ 36].
Woodruff et al. [ 35] approached the issue of "clustered mutations", which implies that related individuals may inherit identical genetic changes, contrasting an assumption that mutations are independent events.
For the phylogenetic independent contrast analyses, to make comparisons consistent with the assumption that a contrast's mean is independent of its standard deviation [ 75], contrasts were analyzed using the PDAP package in MESQUITE [ 76, 77] and a base-10 logarithmic transformation was performed on the ultrametric branch lengths.
In SecTTS, the EPCDS is designed as a semi-trusted server, contrasting the assumptions of previous works, which requires a trusted EPCDS.
BMD and RSA data were normally distributed and within-subjects effects were analyzed using a general linear model with a repeated-measures design and planned contrasts; the assumption of sphericity was determined by Mauchly's test.
