Island ages are in millions of years (myr) and were derived from plate velocity and potassium-argon (KAr) dating estimates from multiple sources [ 3, 17, 82, 86, 87].
However, 'bending' has found little application except to force covariance matrices obtained by pooling estimates from multiple sources to be positive definite.
In this article, we present a normalization for full-resolution CN estimates from multiple sources (abbreviated MSCN) which ensures that the observed mean estimates for any true CN level agree across sources such that there is a linear relationship between sources.
However, comparisons with our study are not straightforward as the AIHW study did not separate widows and married women, restricted the MBS data to local medical officer and GP (out-of-hospital) services, and used pharmaceutical use data estimated from multiple sources because PBS RPBS) data were incomplete at that time [ 14].
In reflecting the quality of an estimate drawn from multiple sources, GRADE aims to help the reader consider how confident we are that an effect estimate is correct [ 12].
In this paper, the prevalence of HCV infection and the risk of developing hepatic and extrahepatic sequelae for HCV-infected people within at-risk groups, were estimated synthesising routine data from multiple sources in a region of Central Italy.
Children do not reduce the variances of their sensory estimates by integrating information from multiple sources in the same way as adults, until at least 8 10 years of age (Alais & Burr, 2004; Ernst & Banks, 2002; Helbig & Ernst, 2007; Hillis et al., 2002).
The strengths of our study are the nearly complete follow-up of our patients (99.5%), and survival estimates based on data collected from multiple sources, including death certificates, patients' ophthalmologists and/or general physicians, as well as from the Division of Ophthalmology, University of Essen, where the patients were treated.
Their ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and estimate the effects of interventions can be invaluable, especially in areas where primary data collection may be infeasible.
This approach has the advantage of taking into account information from multiple sources in estimating true disease status but, in its traditional form, requires a minimum of three conditionally independent tests [10], [12].
