PLATO (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT00391872) was an international, prospective, randomized, double-blind, double dummy, event-driven trial in patients hospitalized for NSTEMI that was managed invasively or medically, or STEMI scheduled for primary PCI strategy.
Dummy events were analysed as a separate experimental condition, termed "no picture".
To this end, I created dummy events, which were then used for all analyses.
These dummy events were inserted between each two trials and their onsets drawn from a normal distribution with a mean of 4.5 s after the previous stimulus onset, and a standard deviation of 0.75 s.
Its main shortcoming is that all the environmental factors are modeled as "event" dummy variables taking the values zero or one without accounting for the magnitude of the factors.
In the second step and in order to measure the effect of accumulated life events, two dummy variables were built out of the ten events ; for one event and for more than two events.
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This method reduces the communication cost by dropping many dummy messages while providing source event unobservability.
The model fitted to the logit of IV coverage included three dummy variables (one for each event) and a sequence of numbers from 1 to 12 years to measure and test the time trend effect.
Thus, a Cox PH model with constant HRs between event-specific hazard functions was used on duplicated data; i.e., with a dummy variable denoting each type of event introduced as covariate [ 4, 17].
In addition, we consider several control variables such as the platform lifetime in days as well as dummy variables for extraordinary TV events, seasonality, and major updates to the game.
