On the other hand, using high values of the clustering parameter yields many possible transitions, but diminishes reliability (Additional file 2).
Assumptions such as uniform parallel road marking, continuity of road texture, and operational vehicle head or tail lights are somewhat utopian and real world variability serves to diminish reliability.
It is far from clear that this would produce a more reliable determination of guilt or innocence, since the passage of time only diminishes the reliability of criminal adjudications.
For instance, an emphasis on VA could lead teachers to cheat or teach to the test, which would then diminish the reliability of VA as a measure of teacher quality.
Further, participants were asked to recall information on a variety of practices over a year's time, which might diminish the reliability of the results.
Apart from this limitation, the sample size was lower than the estimate, so it is a factor that may diminish the reliability of our findings.
There is some evidence that suggests that labels distract respondents from job attributes and thus may diminish the reliability of estimates of attribute preferences [ 18].
It is expected that a significant proportion of the fluid samples may give false negative results, limiting the usefulness of testing fluids to assess the infectious status of individual animals, or at least diminishing the reliability of a negative result.
Furthermore, mapping of the region around the SNRPD3 variation contained a high number of mismatches and unknown bases, and the fact that SNRPD3 is a splicesomal gene diminishes the reliability of this variation.
However, we do not believe this diminishes the reliability of our reference standard since the second pair of blinded cardiologists achieved extremely high concordance, and the moderating consultant cardiologist was a specialist electrophysiologist.
