It should, however, be noted that correction for selection and misclassification bias would lead to higher meta-analytical odds ratios.
Patients with low cathepsin-D levels had a significantly better disease-free survival than patients with high cathepsin-D values (meta-analytical odds ratio from 0.59 to 0.60 over the interval from 1 to 7 years).
The analytical technique provides odds ratios (OR), confidence intervals (95% CI), and Wald's chi-square.
Interestingly, Dahl does not emerge as a particularly reflective individual: his puerile humor, his lively imagination, his rebellious zeal and his determination were all strongly at odds with any analytical bent.
This relationship relies on the prevalence odds and applies analytical simplifications that assume that deaths from other causes are the same in cancer patients and other persons [See the Appendix in Additional file 1].
Secondly, we acknowledge the risk of recall bias and consequent misclassification error, though we expect these to be small in magnitude given the discernible nature of CVD and current medication use, and we emphasize that such recall bias is non-differential between our analytical subgroups and that the odds ratios presented are unlikely to be influenced by this bias.
Meta-analytic techniques (RevMan analytical software version 5.1.1; Cochrane Collaboration, Oxford, UK) were used to combine studies using odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs).
The hotheaded humanist doctor and the rigorously analytical first officer are always at odds, and yet their contrasting methods and styles turn out to be complementary.
Finally, our analytical approach to modelling involvement (proportional-odds regression), given its assumptions, avoids the more arbitrary definition of levels of involvement that would have applied had we adopted a conventional binary approach to measurement and estimation.
Pushing analysts to weight their intelligence assessments creates a less ambiguous standard of accountability, which might explain why the consensus in the analytical community is to avoid disclosing their odds.
Although Pericles was a main source of his inspiration, some historians have noted that the passionate and idealistic literary style of the speeches Thucydides attributes to Pericles is completely at odds with Thucydides' own cold and analytical writing style.
