The difference in proportions of responders between the vaccine group and the placebo group was 81.0% 955% CI; 68 89%), the lower limit of the 95% CI of this difference was greater than 50% and fulfilled the a priori defined criterion for an acceptable immune response.
This cartographic projection from fulfills all defined criteria for a good visualization.
Based on this procedure, three varieties of the CUSUM algorithm were developed and tested based on real incident data against a newly defined criterion for mean detection delay.
The resulting final error estimates enable lastly to state if the reconstruction results fulfill a priori defined criteria, for example, fulfill dimensional constraints including tolerance information, for vision-based quality control applications for example.
†Effect estimates not used for our analyses, as they failed to meet our a priori defined criteria for outcomes.
Fifty percent of patients in both treatment groups met the a priori defined criteria for remission (p = 1.0).
A lack of defined criteria for what constitutes a comorbidity, and absence of an established gold standard for measuring comorbidity [ 3, 9], have led to a variety of methods and indices being used in injury research.
International comparisons are difficult because a set of defined criteria for reporting is lacking at an international level.
Eight out of eight pigs met prospectively defined criteria for a positive 'response' to heliox therapy with respect to tidal volume and seven out of eight pigs met prospectively defined criteria for a positive 'response' with respect to compliance after crossover from nitrox to heliox.
Another 44.3% (n = 54) were highly suspect for Lyme disease based on the presence of 5/7 of the defined criteria for a Lyme diagnosis, as outlined in the Materials and methods section.
Such plants could be approved for commercial use by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service unless they meet the narrowly defined criteria for a "noxious weed"; that is, that they cause extreme environmental harm such as completely overruning their surroundings.
