This study was to evaluate whether age income stratification designs generate comparable income mortality associations as those whose income rankings are based on absolute thresholds.
The US Institute of Medicine expert committee recommended in their 2011 report that the model FOP system should be applied universally and be based on absolute thresholds for saturated and trans fat, sodium, and sugar for two food categories, individual foods and main dishes/meal products, to allow for the comparison of foods within and across categories [ 16].
Moreover, the weather indices based on relative threshold of temperature were more suitable for chilling injury in most regions, whereas the indices based on absolute threshold were more suitable for heat damage.
The most aggressive strategy based on absolute risk thresholds, focusing on all patients with risks above 5%, was the most effective but at an incremental cost effectiveness ratio that was well above the benchmark of three times GDP per capita.
30 31 A consequence of the use of fatal events only is that treatment allocation, based on absolute risk thresholds from the SCORE algorithm, disproportionately increases the likelihood for older individuals to be considered as candidates for preventive treatment.
Since the decision rule is not based on absolute values and thresholds, rather on relative values of extrema, it is more robust to data variation (like type of dance) and no empirically derived decision thresholds are used.
We note: (1) the dependence of the thresholds on the mean and standard deviation through the coefficient of variation (CV); and, (2) that defining thresholds based on absolute relative changes results in thresholds which require larger %-decreases for statistical significance (but smaller %-increases).
However, most large scale population studies that include elderly use one-size-fits-all, fixed thresholds based on absolute intensity for all adults regardless of age or CRF [ 13, 14].
Because we used sub-lethal concentrations of the toxicants, methods that use thresholds based on absolute fold change would not identify small changes in gene expression.
Female choice is often assumed to be based on absolute preference, driven by a threshold value of mate attractiveness.
However, adjusting for mean daily temperature had little effect on associations between heat wave days and PTB or NAD when heat waves were defined based on absolute values [vs. relative (percentile) thresholds] for heat index (HI13, HI14, HI15), maximum daily temperature (HI11), or minimum and maximum daily temperatures (HI12).
