We postulated that true positive variations could be largely determined as a function of the concordance level; i.e., variations with very high concordant values would be true positives.
For traffic density, the two methods yielded quite concordant values for the Forsyth, Jackson, and Minneapolis communities, but concordance was lower for Washington County.
Patients with at least 2 consecutive high aPTT to anti-Xa values had increased 21-day major bleeding (9% vs 3%; p = 0.0316) and 30-day mortality (14% dead vs 5% dead at 30 days; p = 0.0202) compared with patients with consistently concordant values.aPTT and anti-Xa values are frequently discordant when used to measure UFH in hospitalized patients.
Each of the analysis in the study was repeated twice until concordant values were obtained, and all the tests were carried out according to the standard methods (APHA 1998).
Sample from each station within the lake were analyzed thrice for each parameters (i.e., triplicate results) to obtain concordant values.
All the analyses in this study were repeated two or three times until concordant values were obtained, and all the tests were carried out according to the standard methods (APHA 1998).
As the two methods produced highly concordant values (r = 0.997; supplementary fig. S1, Supplementary Material online), hereafter we only refer to the results obtained using BEAST.
Therefore, concordant high values of HKAr and TjD indices for these genes are very supportive of balancing selection, encouraging a two-dimensional approach to identifying genes under such selection [45].
Diagnostic performance, including 95% confidence intervals was assessed using sensitivity, specificity, agreement (proportion in whom both sample-specific results were concordant), predictive values and area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve where the combined results of culture or PCR was used as the gold standard to classify patients as definite TBM or non TBM.
Viral identification using naso-pharyngeal PCR that revealed viral respiratory infection in approximately one-third of cases was concordant with values reported in the literature [ 23].
