The ICC was chosen as an assessment of the agreement between different methods used on the same set of subjects.
We then performed extensive chemical analysis, chemical genomics, and comparative fermentations to evaluate any differences between these two different methods used for producing corn stover and switchgrass hydrolysates.
This inconsistency may have resulted from differences in the growth stages of plants between experiments, or from the different methods used.
As stated in the paper by Lutsey et al. (12), the differences between studies may be the result of different methods used, for example definition of outcome, population, age, dietary assessment, and statistical methods.
Triangulation between different methods was used to enhance the credibility of findings and to achieve a comprehensive picture of the OHP development in Nigeria.
A common way to interpret the scores and facilitate the comparison between different methods is to use score variation by comparing the mutant score with the reference score.
To be able to compare fairly between different methods and parameters, we used a post processing approach.
In an agreement assay, it is of interest to evaluate the degree of agreement between different methods (devices, instruments or observers) used to measure the same characteristic.
Although the correlation coefficients between PIEF vs. OGE methods were satisfactory, they may not be reliable indicators of agreement between different methods, and thus the use of r-values for method comparison is practically prohibited in clinical sciences, such as clinical chemistry, as highlighted by Bland and Altman [ 23].
The comparisons between different methods are shown in Figure 7 using scatter plots.
