Our study therefore provides a theoretical understanding of demarcation line formation between kin-discriminatory populations, and can be used for analyzing and designing future experiments.
Risk scores show overall good discriminatory ability in populations for whom they were developed.
Based on these new observations, an index will be established assembling the most discriminatory variables affecting populations at risk of consulting a doctor belatedly after the onset of the first cancer-related symptoms.
To test whether the expression of each leukocyte metagene was highly discriminatory between specific populations of leukocytes, we calculated immune cell metagene scores for each cell type across all cell types.
One possible explanation is that the Barthel Index was insufficiently discriminatory in our population where most of the patients had very high Barthel scores.
Although ANG-2 did not have such large AUC values, it showed moderate accuracy as a discriminatory marker in both populations examined (Figure 1B - Thai: AUC = 0.835, p<0.001; Figure 2B - Uganda: AUC = 0.688, p<0.001).
The 15D instrument has good test retest reliability, construct validity, and discriminatory power in general populations [ 23] and has been validated for use in COPD [ 30, 31].
The discriminatory function in heterogeneous populations is poor and influenced by pre-existing renal function and time of sample collection with respect to the renal insult [ 48].
Laws that apply only to specific sub-populations are discriminatory and violate the 14th amendment, which grants equal protection under the law.
In our population, the discriminatory power of the published Framingham model [ 14] was not statistically better than risk prediction using FPG or 2hPG.
The UK validation of Affectometer 2 reported good face validity, favourable construct validity with comparable scales, good discriminatory powers between different population groups and appropriate test-retest reliability over time [ 21, 22].
