Accordingly, classification of patients into the three abnormal LV geometric patterns in this Mac-SoLID study will be based on distributions within the study population, rather than arbitrary partition values for M-V ratio from the literature.
As the cohort consists of multiple populations with a wide range of variation in terms of volume and concentration of coffee and tea intake, country specific quartiles for these beverages were estimated based on distribution of intake within each country, after excluding the non-consumers.
Different from National Diabetes Data Group criteria, which were essentially based on distribution of glucose levels within the general population, the 1997 ADA criteria (and the subsequently recommended World Health Organization criteria) established diabetic glycemic levels by means of their association with retinopathy, the most exclusive and specific diabetes complication.
We used the Nakagami-m propagation model with configuration parameters as in [22]; hence, receivers located within 100 m of the transmitter will receive the signal based on Rician distribution, and others are based on Rayleigh distribution.
CVD risk factors were standardised (based on the distribution within each diabetes type), and combined within the groups of lipids, blood pressure, inflammation and anthropometrics (for details, see ESM Methods).
Metagenomic analysis of complex microbiota communities is particularly sensitive to errors in sequence distribution, because abundance measures of individual bacterial genes and strains are based on sequence distribution within a given sample.
To account for the wide distribution of data and potential nonlinear associations, markers values were transformed into quartiles based on the distribution within the study population when calculating odds ratios (OR).
Dynamic substrate mapping (DSM) is an algorithm designed to identify conduction boundaries, such as myocardial scars based on voltage distribution within the corresponding chamber.
These categories were based on the distribution within the control group.
Based on motif distribution within each CTR, the domain was divided in two regions: proximal and distal.
