Sentence examples for attributable to selection of from inspiring English sources

Although tumour remissions and survival seemed improved with the addition of docetaxel, which compares well with other docetaxel-containing neoadjuvant treatment regimens (Homann et al, 2012; Thuss-Patience et al, 2012) it is not clear whether these results are attributable to selection of patients or whether they are an effect of chemotherapy due to the small sample size.

However, the estimation of a mixed proportional hazard model suggests that this is attributable to selection on unobservables rather than true duration dependence.

Much of the variation in brain and testes sizes among primate taxa, therefore, is attributable to selection for body size.

Although the design of the hospital-based case-control study has potential drawbacks such as selection bias, the results in this study are unlikely to be attributable to selection bias because of the large sample size that included >90% of all eligible cases, solid and reproducible genotyping procedures, and significantly increased ORs with very small P values.

Several studies had weaknesses attributable to selection biases, uncontrolled confounders, and lack of blinding of outcome assessors.

These reports suggest that much or all of the vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated difference in mortality is attributable to selection bias.

The paucity of interspecific introgressions on the X chromosome may be attributable to selection against hybrid incompatibilities that cause intrinsic postzygotic isolation.

According to Barreiro and colleagues, any deviation from this expectation should be attributable to selection [ 29].

The survival difference between the two treatment modalities is partly attributable to selection bias.

This may in part be attributable to poor selection of patients, lack of stratification for prior endocrine responsiveness, inappropriate clinical end-points and an incomplete understanding of whether the given target is an 'addictive' component in the cell.

The difference in direction of point estimates between the studies appears largely attributable to the selection of studies and data rather than, for instance, choice of treatment effect measure (OR rather than RR) or any statistical adjustments applied by Regnier et al. [ 39].