The results of our research demonstrate that a first (and only) test bite may be masking slightest distortions that, at the time of the comparative analysis, may increase the chances of producing false positives or false negatives.
The strength of the evolutionary comparative method relies precisely in comparing species (or taxa), allowing expanding the range of variation of traits and thus increasing the chances of detecting adaptive patterns.
In the six-month comparative trial, Rebif patients had a 90percentt greater chance of avoiding a relapse than patients on Avonex.
"But a key factor is Irvine's lack of popularity with a vociferous section of the West Brom season ticket holders who were dismayed at the appointment of a comparative unknown and have never given Irvine a chance.
Hagel and several partners raised money from hundreds of investors, telling them that they were buying the chance to compete for the licenses through comparative trials, which would be adjudicated by the F.C.C.
And you intuit, in the change of scene, a corresponding change in the cultural landscape, as if a comparative ethnography of Thai and Chinese attitudes toward death, chance and the afterlife had sneaked, all but imperceptibly, into this artful, unsettling ghost story.
To assess comparative vulnerability respondents were asked whether compared to someone of the same age and gender in the Netherlands they would have a smaller or larger chance to get one of the diseases and conditions in the coming years (a much smaller chance - a much larger chance).
That relative steadiness was reinforced by Arsène Wenger's baffling failure to sign anybody to improve Arsenal's chances of success besides the goalkeeper Petr Cech, and Chelsea's comparative restraint, for them.
Filled with a series of intricate melodies, the slow, languid pace of As Long As That is a comparative slow-burner among the chaos of tracks such as By Chance and That Way.
Possible causes of discrepancy (inconsistency) between the direct and indirect evidence include the play of chance, invalid indirect comparison, bias in head-to-head comparative trials, and clinically meaningful heterogeneity across trials.
