Sentence examples for fixed prevalence from inspiring English sources

For a fixed prevalence, constant lifespans are consistent with lower parameter estimates than exponential lifespans.

Given a fixed prevalence, PPV was greater for shorter length of quarantine (especially, for t < 1 day) due mainly to the relative increase in detection of true positives by rapid diagnostic testing (see equation (6)).

The shortcoming of the PR vis-à-vis CIR is plainly depicted in Figure 1, which shows how the latter varies according to the duration of outcome, given fixed prevalences among exposure groups and time period (Δt) concerning the risks involved in the projected CIR.

Because we had a sample of known positive ticks, we were able to share information on the detection probability from this sample with the unknown prevalence sample by fixing prevalence for these ticks to 1 and modeling the detection parameters in common across the two groups of ticks.

Third, for a fixed treatment prevalence and underlying marginal hazard ratio, the differences in statistical power between RCTs and observational studies tended to increase as the strength of the treatment-selection process increased (i.e. with increasing c-statistic of the treatment-selection model).

We fix the prevalence of disease, and the chance a diseased subject manifests signs and symptoms.

Then, we evaluate the impact of GAMETES model population as well as the effect of fixing population prevalence (K) or allowing it to vary randomly on observed model shape coverage and EDM score range.

Slight deviations in the smoothness of the prevalence data were fixed by averaging the prevalence rate causing the tool to err with the prevalence rate in the previous age group, and using this average for both age groups.

For dichotomous traits, <img src="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=info?doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0013584.e110.PNG" class= inline-graphic"/> was chosen to keep the population prevalence fixed at 0.01.

In the reported simulation study, we fixed the disease prevalence to 50%.

The prevalence was fixed to 52%, which corresponds to the prevalence observed in the prospective study.