When more than one such outcome was reported in an article, we used a hierarchical selection process of (a) authors' explicit declaration of primacy, (b) the composite outcome used to calculate the sample size, (c) authors' attribution of importance to the composite outcome in their description of the results, or (d) the composite outcome that appeared first in the methods section.
Other significant predictors were (in decreasing order of importance) the composite scores on the NP-Batt, the MMSE scores, gender and obesity.
The results reveal the importance of the architecture of composite formation.
Our MLR confirmed the importance of two composite variables from only three tumor characteristics: 1) the size of SLN metastasis when angiolymphatic invasion is present, and 2) tumor size times the square of the size of SLN metastasis.
This item reiterates the importance of using composite measures of disease activity, but indicates that other aspects such as functional impairment and joint damage, which are governed by the degree of disease activity, also have to be considered.
The delamination phenomena can become of paramount importance when the design of the composite plates is concerned.
While this was done to incorporate clinically meaningful outcomes in light of sample size considerations, there are disadvantages of composite endpoints [ 44], such as differences in the importance of each part of the composite.
We point out the importance of composite operators, built of products of the primary electron or \(\varphi\) fields: These have important effects also away from the hot spots.
This study highlights the importance of an optimised composite bollard by reducing the reaction force transfer requirement.
The importance of low frequency composite elements has been illustrated by the recent finding that binding of Oct4 and CTCF to a composite element of the Xist gene is required for the regulation of X chromosome inactivation [25] (Fig. 7).
