Primary outcomes will be continuous and categorical markers of prenatal and postnatal somatic growth.
A 2-tailed, unpaired t-test was used to evaluate the association between HES1 expression levels and categorical markers.
The associations between numerical variables (AAC) and categorical variables (marker haplotypes) were analysed according to the General Linear Model (GLM) procedure.
By adapting these approaches, we are able to extract groups of categorical genetic markers that have a high association with multiple repeatedly measured intermediate risk factors.
On the other hand it might be that CTVB represents a categorical and valuable proxy marker of these known disadvantages giving social scientists and public health physicians an indication of where to focus preventative health measures.
On the basis of these cut-off points, Kaplan Meier analysis for categorical values of each marker was performed to assess the correlation between the expression levels and prognosis status in patients treated with sunitinib in terms of PFS and OS.
The result had shown that SNP markers as categorical features and adopting the RF to discriminate cases against controls are more precisely.
Linear regression models were used to analyze the association between histological markers as categorical variables and mammographic density (absolute density and percent density) as continuous variables.
To test the association of the markers with categorical tumor characteristics (T-stage, N-stage and histopathological grade) either the Mann-Whitney test or Fisher's exact test (after dichotomization of the variables) was used.
Further, multivariate survival analysis was performed in order to investigate if any of the methylation markers were independent prognostic markers, using both, categorical and continuous methylation data.
