To maintain outcome assessor blinding, validated assessment tools are required.
The testing set results under blind conditions validated the analysis.
This blind validation is designed to validate the results that were presented here.
Blinding success was validated at the end of the study.
34 This blinding procedure was validated in earlier trials.
ELISA was performed blind by the lab technician, then validated and interpreted blind by lab technician and scientific supervisor.
The method exhibited high performance for quantitative analysis in the range of 0.0001% to 50% as inferred by the calibration curve parameters being effectively validated with blind mixtures.
The data-driven model, that the forecasting tool is based on, is validated with blind cases by estimating the cumulative gas production after 10 years with an average error of 3.2%.
The proxy model is validated with blind-cases with a correlation coefficient of 0.96.
In addition, we followed proper biorepository procedures including validated and blinded biomarker measurements from sample aliquots that had not undergone prior freeze-thaw cycles.
There was concealment of randomisation, all interventions were delivered by the same tutor, there was no contamination of interventions, the assessment was validated and blinded, and the power was sufficient to demonstrate non-inferiority.
