The year's biggest losers included several technology companies, such as the Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation and the GCA Corporation, because of general weakness in the industry.
In considering how to minimize this risk, we carefully considered, and ultimately rejected, the Bonferroni and related procedures due to their several weaknesses, including a higher probability of type II statistical errors and the subjectivity of deciding what constitutes an appropriate level at which to aggregate the tests [64], [65].
The RNAi system in D. pulex suffers from several weaknesses, including incomplete silencing, transient effects, and limited analyzable stages.
21 The latter study had several weaknesses including, the use of a multiplication factor and age distributions derived from Thailand instead of India.
However, gFOBTs have several weaknesses, including limited sensitivity even when used biennially (Burch et al, 2007; van Dam et al, 2010).
Previous studies of this strategy had several weaknesses, including the use of a before-after design 26 or patient recruitment at a single centre.
While kappa is the most common statistic used to compare categorical survey responses at two points in time and has been used to evaluate national surveys in the United States [ 21], kappa has several weaknesses including sensitivity to the prevalence of a behavior/response [ 22], the number of categories, and the assumption of independent raters [ 23- 28].
This procedure is relatively simple but has several weaknesses, including (a) loss of qualitative information, (b) lack of robustness, since univariate models cannot properly handle outliers that result from abnormal signals or varied quality of oilseeds, and (c) applicability only to oilseeds whose calibration curve has already been established.
In its report Thursday, the credit rating agency said it saw several weaknesses in the banks' Wall Street operations, including their complexity and opacity.
The Act, however, does have several weaknesses.
