Developing an "asthma phenotype index" including clinical and molecular criteria of several facets relevant and stable over time would facilitate practical use in clinics, if positive and negative predictive values are superior to current management.
Tooth hypersensitivity can fit the criteria of several pain terms as described by Merskey [ 14] for the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Due to the complicated nature of genome structure, one individual probe site may fit the criteria of several genomic region categories.
Moreover, the occurrence of irritability as part of the criteria of several different psychiatric disorders may be a mistake of previous classifications and should not be treated as a given.
However, the authors suggest that cost should be used as a main criterion without sub-criteria because of several overlaps in the hierarchical structure [ 30].
Three studies investigated concomitant criterion validity of several screens.
Selection of one of these two sets was made based on the following criteria: Out of several sets of oligonucleotide probes sorted by the number of times each one was found in the set of analyzed sequences, the set in which the first probe was most represented was selected.
6 The most frequently used criterion, the DAS28 Cr, has been questioned since patients may be in remission by this criterion in spite of several swollen and tender joints.
To further assess which model best suits our data, we compare the Akaike's information criterion (AIC) values of several models, namely Poisson, negative binomial, generalized Poisson, generalized negative binomial, zero-inflated Poisson and zero-inflated negative binomial.
The network in Montreal included 13 fixed-site stations that were used to measure hourly concentrations of several criteria pollutants.
