The Speaker of the Syrian Parliament has written to Commons Speaker John Bercow inviting a parliamentary delegation to the Syrian capital to check the UN's conclusions.
We also wished to obtained data from an additional murine cell line depleted for LEDGF/p75 to check the generality of conclusions from Shun et al. [41].
Repeated calculation using different databases is another practical solution to check the robustness of conclusions [13].
Propensity scores will be used as an alternative to direct confounder adjustment, to control for confounding by indication, and to check the robustness of conclusions.
Participation of one of the authors as an independent observer in some of the cluster meetings also provided further independent information which were used to cross check the findings and conclusions of this study.
If there are adequate studies (no less than three studies), we will conduct a sensitivity analysis to check the robustness of conclusions and assess the impact of methodological quality.
Sensitivity analyses were also performed to check the robustness of the conclusions, given the nature and number of missing data values in this study.
Because of the uncertainty and approximations involved in the estimate, we did the computations in which σ was fixed, not just at σ = 0.5 mL/min, but also at values of σ lower as well as higher than 0.5 mL/min in order to check the robustness of the conclusions.
To check the robustness of the conclusions reached, we conducted another set of stepwise regression analyses as described earlier, but excluding these three populations, and calculated the allelic richness estimations based on a sample of 8 genes, in which the three smallest populations could not be included, and on a sample of two genes to include data of all studied populations.
To check that the conclusions were not sensitive to the choice of the starting values, we repeated the simulations, for each method, with different initial values.
As a sensitivity analysis, we used a simplified longer-term model to check whether the conclusions of the main analysis would have been likely to be different if a longer-term perspective had been adopted, for example, 25 years.
