Two main kinds of route choice behaviours are considered to be plausible: either the respondent chooses the route perceived/expected to be the fastest, or a very conservative behaviour is applied and the most time-reliable route is chosen.
If this value is a large positive number, the power-law assumption is considered to be plausible compared to the alternative distribution.
We chose and assigned what we considered to be plausible and realistic levels for the six attributes that represent scenarios commonly found in asthma management.
While largely absent from existing RTM literature, including confidence intervals, a measure of the precision of single-value RTM estimates, is valuable because it provides a range of values that are considered to be plausible for the population.
Most causes were considered to be plausible (98%); an implausible cause was, for instance, the lack of attending ANC in the first trimester as a cause for the uterine rupture following a face presentation.
Bayesian regularization (BR) constrains (shrinks) the magnitude of the networks weights, improves generalization and allows bias in parameter estimates towards values that are considered to be plausible, while reducing their variance; thus, there is a bias-variance trade-off [ 13].
An association between neuroblastoma and CHD is considered to be plausible as neuroblastoma originates from embryonal neural crest-derived cells [ 3], and neural crest-derived cells are essential in cardiogenesis as well [ 14].
The factors considered to be plausible independent causal risk factors, i.e. CTQ total score, age and sex, were entered into step forward logistic regression, with the dependent variable of group (bipolar or control).
The estimates of participation in the current study were chosen because they were considered to be plausible (53% for faecal tests based on the UK pilot programmes and 39% for FSIG based on the UK trial) (UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening Trial Investigators, 2002; Weller et al, 2006; Information Services Division, 2008).
