This liberal threshold was set as an exploratory cut-off with consideration for the known role that the pathways and genes included in this study play in t-PA and PAI-1 biochemistry and the likelihood that the chosen polymorphisms are strong candidates.
In a secondary exploratory analysis using cut-off >1, both RF and anti-CCP positivity were significant predictors in the unadjusted, but not the adjusted analyses.
Before he assumed the co-chairmanship of Al Sharpton's exploratory Presidential committee, or cut a rap CD, West wrote a well-received book on American pragmatism — a book in which Hook's ideas figure prominently.
Researchers must therefore find a balance between the length and internal structure as revealed by the exploratory analysis with different cut-points.
The study's income cut-off was intentionally set above the program's eligibility cut-off because exploratory research indicated that many families with monthly per capita household income above the formal cut-off were participating in the program.
His scrupulous, exploratory, fraternal style was never cut out for a great public role.
The panel, which is expected to release its findings sometime after July 5, heard witnesses describe, under oath, the events that forced Shell to cut loose its exploratory drilling rig, the Kulluk, from its towline, grounding it on pristine Sitkalidak Island on New Year's Eve.
After exploratory analyses we can decide cut-off points and the number of language proficiency categories, and we can validate our categorization with the researcher assessment.
Furthermore, an exploratory analysis evaluating as potential cut-off values all deciles of PMP22 did not improve over the categorization at the median PMP22 value.
In addition, ROC analysis was used as an exploratory evaluation of the best cut-off point of 2 h post-load plasma glucose to predict MACE after AMI in non-PDM patients and positive and negative predictive values were derived using this cut-off value.
Since anti-CCP or RF positivity has been found to associate significantly in other early RA cohorts, we performed an exploratory analysis using a lower cut-off threshold of SHS increase >1: both auto-antibodies were then significant predictors in the unadjusted analyses.
