The responsiveness evaluated by two studies [ 26, 28] is of fair methodological quality because of a poor description of the constructs measured by the comparator instrument [ 28], a lack of information regarding measurement properties of the comparator instrument [ 26, 28], a vague description of the hypotheses [ 26] and a moderate sample size [ 26].
Few of the existing methods (reviewed below) provide an explicit description of the null hypothesis being tested, or fully acknowledge the inherent correlation structure of copy number data.
To account for the effect of the gap in the tri-peak procedure, we extended the qualitative description of the relative-duration hypothesis [22] to a quantitative model of the effect of retention-intervals on timing [25] [27].
Also, in full agreement with Lawrence's comment, the author should emphasize the description of the second touch hypothesis, which in this version comes late and almost incidentally.
Whereas the original description of the thrifty genotype hypothesis focused on the over-production of insulin after meals and a corresponding period of hypoglycemia that induces appetite, the idea that efficient storage and utilization of energy in adipose tissue is a selected trait has also been widely discussed and attributed to thrifty genes (7).
All analyses were based on the trees and character matrix of Miller ([21]; see for detailed description of the used phylogenetic hypotheses and characters: [1] male genitalia typically mutilated in the course of copulation (G), [2] male sacrifice behavior (S), [3] extreme sexual size dimorphism (D), [4] male accumulation (A), and [5] male monogamy (M)).
We introduce the authors' ideas here, but readers should refer to the original article for a detailed description of the following mechanistic hypotheses, particularly because we describe them strictly within the context of deer removal rather than deer reduction treatments.
In the sequel, we shall simply quote only the p-values and draw conclusions instead of going through the description of testing the null hypothesis that the median is zero indicating no change in the responses after taking the Course.
The earliest Greek report of the creature is probably a greatly distorted description of the Caspian tiger, a hypothesis that accords well with the presumed source of the Greek word, an Old Iranian compound meaning "man-eater".
However, most publications did not include a full description of the results for their hypothesis tests.
