Zia begins each chapter with a personal narrative, then examines an incident designed to illuminate some aspect of Asian-American life.
Specifically, information on culture, geographical location of incident, dwelling design, vehicle design, supervision prior to the event, family composition, etc., is required.
Victor Cha, a North Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a former official in the National Security Council during President George W. Bush's second term in office, noted that when Mr. Kim was on the rise three decades ago, "there were similar incidents designed to build his credibility" as a leader.
To help minimise potential biases we used an incident user design.
The primary strengths of this study were the incident user design and the broad diversity and large size of the study population.
We used an incident user design comparing metformin to the common alternative first-line therapy, SUs, for patients with type 2 diabetes.
We used an incident user design to help minimise the impact of the biases that can arise from non-randomised studies such as in the current study.
To eliminate immortal time bias, we applied incident user design to this study, with the exposure time calculated from the start of new biologics in the biologics group (and corresponding date in the nbDMARDs group).
As shown in Figure 2, the hazard of failure to continue treatment is highest in the early months following initiation and therefore, the incident user design is appropriate and necessary in this setting.
We used an incident user design to avoid underascertainment of events that occur soon after treatment begins 17 and to ensure that baseline covariates at study entry were assessed before the start of treatment and were not affected by the treatment itself.
