It's something akin to the comparison of talking to someone over a dusty, staticky radio that tends to dilute and obfuscate the message versus talking to someone who is sitting right next to you.
The patients were stratified by a rise in serum creatinine corresponding to the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) criteria for comparison purposes.
Because an informal process of data comparison (akin to multiple testing) has taken place (by the media, concerned individuals, etc). in similar-sized localities elsewhere across the country, statistical testing in a formal sense is rendered invalid (Elliott and Wakefield 2000).
This established a reference point for our model comparisons (akin to the "ground truth" scenario used for validating models by simulated data).
These techniques are based on the similarity principle [4, 5], which follows the premise that similar compounds (and targets) [6] are more likely to exhibit akin bioactivity profiles in comparison to structurally distant structures.
Presence or absence of AKI was recorded using each of the three AKI criteria - RIFLE, AKIN and AKIB to allow comparison between the three different systems, and also to ensure that the data remained relevant for comparison to future studies if a specific one of the 3 criteria was universally adopted.
The Tea Party is, by comparison, not only akin to a traditional political cohort, but also really more like the thing you have in a garden with brewed beverages and seersucker suits.
This parameter was analyzed in both a longitudinal (between groups - no AKI, AKIN 1-3) and a horizontal (comparison at different time points - 24, 48, and 96 h) manner.
Finally, it is important to note that we were unable to evaluate the pRIFLE criteria for AKI in comparison to the AKIN staging system, since we did not have complete data regarding patients' height.
In comparison, the open ocean is akin to a desert with very stable conditions.
Despite this late spending surge from Mr. Akin, his fund-raising has paled in comparison to that of Ms. McCaskill, who spent more than four and a half times as much as her opponent in the third quarter.
