Sentence examples for community comparison from inspiring English sources

The purpose of this study was to examine rates of traumatic events and PTSD in cocaine-dependent cases and a community comparison sample.

The validity of this putative endophenotype was assessed by determining whether 149 probands with schizophrenia and 337 of their first-degree relatives demonstrated WM impairment as compared to 190 unaffected community comparison subjects.

Past studies describe numerous endophenotypes associated with schizophrenia (SZ), but many endophenotypes may overlap in information they provide, and few studies have investigated the utility of a multivariate index to improve discrimination between SZ and healthy community comparison subjects (CCS).

The probands' relatives performed more poorly than community comparison subjects on both tasks, but the difference was significant only for the more challenging maintenance plus complex manipulation WM task.

A whole microbial community comparison showed the nasal microbiota for all phenotypes to be clearly distinct from that of the OP and LUL (Figure 3).

To facilitate abundance-based bacterial community comparison, we equilibrated sequence coverage by generating sequence subsets (n = 387 sequences per sample) using random sampling without replacement and performed taxonomic classification of sequence subsets using the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) Naïve Bayesian Classifier [24].

These trees might be used to search for phylogenetic groups found only in certain environments or to perform community to community comparisons using methods such as UniFrac [26].

In addition, the OTU groupings are utilized by other metrics in determining relative species compositions, microbial diversity, and community comparisons [10], [11].

Bacterial community comparisons of PCR libraries were determined with weighted UniFrac and the relationships are displayed by the Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA).

The alignments and phylogenetic tree outputs of this program can be used for input into a variety of other software tools such as DOTUR (for identifying OTUs) and UNIFRAC (for phylogenetic based community comparisons)[26], [37].

Another important caveat relates to the use of archival data for conducting community comparisons.