Bidirectional labeling leading to the visibility of patches is likely to be overestimated by our model since our simulated tracers have equal efficacy for anterograde, retrograde, and bidirectional transport; a characteristic unlikely to be exhibited by chemical tracers.
However, beyond the changes attributable to the household intervention (which were included in our models), these characteristics were unlikely to vary much within the same individual and therefore were unlikely to confound the observed relationships.
Some communities are found to exhibit a greater variability in catchment/flow properties within themselves when compared to that of the whole network, thus indicating that such characteristics are unlikely to be a significant influence on community grouping.
Further, these unobservable-time invariant worker or job characteristics are unlikely to affect wage growth.
While we believe these two characteristics are unlikely in combination, they represent one extreme that bounds uncertainty in the resulting network of infectious contacts.
Some of the data for surface area, maximum depth, and elevation were collected many years prior to the fish sampling, but these characteristics are unlikely to have changed in the intervening years.
Thus, confounding by other maternal characteristics is unlikely to be responsible for our findings.
Thus, the partner characteristics were unlikely to be major contributors of the ETS-related depression in our study.
Although blood draw and menopausal characteristics are unlikely to confound the ATM breast cancer relationship, matching on these characteristics is necessary for analyses involving plasma hormones.
Confounding by known risk factors or other sociodemographic characteristics seems unlikely to have been responsible for the null results of this study.
