An FBI spokesman in Los Angeles, Fred Reagan, said agents were considering the possibility that the cases are linked, but said no conclusions would be reached until all evidence is examined, a process that could take weeks.
Those with non-missing ECOG performance status differed systematically from the entire cohort, and it is not clear whether the same conclusions would be reached in a more representative population.
Thus, if ⩽2 pCRs were observed, the study would terminate due to lack of efficacy, conversely if ⩾6 pCRs were observed, then a conclusion of efficacy would be reached and the trial stopped.
Were fixed criteria for evidence applied to all creatures, great and small, in the world's zoos, the conclusion would doubtless be reached that we have no basis to feed any of them anything-since all of the relevant insights are almost entirely observational; I have it on good authority that the koalas have ever been randomly assigned to wildebeest steaks, nor the lions to eucalyptus leaves.
This conclusion would also be reached under the first- and second-order collapsed categorizations.
Although OS studies compared favourably with the corresponding ECOG trial (Loehrer et al, 1994), attempting to reach a valid conclusion would be difficult due to the small sample sizes.
"While regretful and inexcusable," Governor Keating wrote, this violation "does not in and of itself establish clearly discernible prejudice or that a different conclusion would have been reached at trial or on appeal of Mr. Valdez's conviction or sentence".
