Sentence examples for approximately linear association from inspiring English sources

We first fitted the effect of heat wave duration as a smooth function (penalized spline with 4 degrees of freedom), but as it showed an approximately linear association we fitted a linear term.

In analyses restricted to 27 long term prospective studies comprising 124 931 participants and 10 981 incident cases of coronary heart disease, there was an approximately log linear association between C reactive protein concentration and risk of coronary heart disease (see fig H in appendix 3 on bmj.com).

It can be seen that the association is approximately linear, which indicates additivity of the genotypic values in the SNP set.

We saw no significant interaction between any of the main variables in the final model, and plots of model residuals indicated that these associations were approximately linear.

Nevertheless, in the range of the pollutants common to all the cities included in the analyses, all associations were approximately linear.

Bell et al. (2006) studied the relationship with mortality in 98 U.S. communities and reported a threshold at 20 μg/m (10 ppb) for 24-hr average ozone, with associations that were approximately linear above this concentration.

Conditional on the interaction with deprivation, the association between absolute change in NHS allocation and change in mortality amenable to healthcare was approximately linear (test for non-linearity: P=0.16, see regression diagnostic in supplementary appendix 3).

For log t-tau, the association with MMSE appears approximately linear.

These indicators had a significant linear association with SES and seemed to mediate approximately 25% of the increased odds ratios associated with low SES.

Since the association of mortality with this term was approximately linear throughout the range of temperatures for the cool season, the final models used linear terms for average lag 0 20 mean temperature.

For all-cause, renal, and respiratory diseases, the association between AT at lag 0 and hospital admission was approximately linear.