However, our main interest was to ascertain the predictive ability of the peripheral QUS to represent overall bone status; hence, the DXA scan was performed on the whole body.
Separate validation experiment at predicted optimal condition ascertained the high predictive ability of the model equation.
Visual predictive check was performed to evaluate the predictive ability of the final model.
We have described assessment of the predictive ability of a risk prediction model, the change in predictive ability upon moving from one model to another, and the comparison of predictive abilities across subgroups of the population.
We describe assessment of the predictive ability of a risk prediction model, the change in predictive ability upon moving from one model to another, and the comparison of predictive abilities across different subgroups of the population.
Having ascertained the magnitude of the genetic relationship between these two groups of traits, the predictive ability of morphological traits on the pathologically descriptive traits was assessed using EBVs calculated from dogs scored at a young age and using them as predictors of phenotypes of offspring scored at a late age (see Materials and Methods).
This study also provides preliminary data on the predictive ability of a questionnaire for predicting relapse.
The predictive ability did not improve with any extension of the lookback period for ascertaining the two diseases (all P > 0.29), and the C-statistic remained about the same (0.624) for models using hospital records from lookback periods of 'Pregnancy'2 '2 years', '3 years', '4 years' and '5 years'.
We performed cross-validation to test the predictive ability of the different models and to find the best predictive model.
We will conduct further analyses exploring the predictive ability of novel risk factors that were not previously included (eg, food insecurity), as well as risk factors that were not ascertained in all CCHS cycles (eg, active transportation, workplace stress, depression and anxiety, cholesterol therapy).
