Restriction of meta-analyses to trials without exclusions resulted in smaller estimated treatment benefits, larger P values, and considerable decreases in between trial heterogeneity.
This implies that using the SWT likely result in a smaller estimates of effectiveness of interventions that substantially improve HRQoL among patients with most severe health states.
A previous study reported that using municipal-level exposures obtained from air pollution monitoring stations as a proxy for personal exposure results in smaller effect estimates than estimates based on individual-level exposure (Navidi and Lurmann 1995).
Rerunning our analysis including small/unstable districts and districts with referral hospitals resulted in a smaller estimated change in the annual rate of mortality decline after the introduction of IMCI (4.1% pre-IMCI vs 6.4% post-IMCI: p=0.02).
In cases where F ( t ) is particularly large, e.g., due to an early vote by a user with many fans, this will result in a smaller estimated value for r F and hence smaller predicted number of other fan votes.
This method results in smaller MIC estimates, compared to the other methods, but may be closer to the minimal important change.
However, if the observed mortality were size-selective as suggested above, e.g., the smallest wild salmon had a lower probability of surviving than the largest wild salmon, plasticity in family growth could appear smaller, resulting in smaller heritability estimates and less genetic variation [ 101, 102].
Disney, 20th Century Fox and Sony led the industry's shift to high-definition Blu-ray discs, which come in smaller cases estimated to have a 30percentt smaller impact on the environment than standard DVDs.
The Russian military contingent in Syria is slightly smaller — estimated at fewer than 2,000 troops and fewer than 100 warplanes.
