However, we are not seeking to report or measure adiposity in itself in this analysis; for comparator purposes, we report BMI at the three time points in order to compare like with like both (1) in relation to the child over time and (2) in relation to the adults.
As a reviewer has commented, there are a plethora of available nomograms, and some discernment is needed when selecting one for comparator purposes.
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The statins selected cover almost the entire market in Greece, and the comparison took place assuming an average dose of 40 mg per day for each comparator for reliability purposes.
These studies do not, however, make a direct analytic comparison of visual inspection to a microbiologic comparator for the purposes of determining the accuracy of visual inspection in determining the effectiveness of PDC.
However, our goal for this study was to assess the excess risk of the DM state for prevalence, extent, severity, and prognosis of CAD findings by CCTA; for this purpose, comparator groups require similarity and previous methods have been well described for application of multivariable methods applied to observational data to mitigate confounding (24).
Although bigram similarity functions have been shown to be adequate comparators for record linkage purposes, several other string similarity comparators are known to perform better, in particular the Jaro comparator and the Winkler modification of it [ 31, 32, 45].
These posterior probabilities are the ratio of evidence for each variant versus all others, which makes it a useful comparator for fine-mapping purposes (12).
While no single perfect dataset existed, the British Columbia Multiple Sclerosis (BCMS) database, Canada (est. 1980) was identified as the best natural history comparator cohort for our purposes.
For the purposes of comparative analysis, it was assumed that 1,330 comparator households were participating in the other support programs, to match the number of LIG participant households.
