If so, the secondary aim is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of HABER test against the reference standard of pain provocation tests, and to determine which increments of the HABER test has highest sensitivity and specificity for identifying SIJ-positive individuals.
The probabilistic criterion proposed consists of finding a consistent value based on a forward regression (FR) procedure: when the slope value does not show a meaningful change by an increment of the test time, it can be assumed that the heat transfer in the underground follows the predicted evaluation model, and the evaluation time is large enough to provide for the statistical precision desired.
Besides the use of MLSS as parameter for exercise prescription, an incremental test (IT) (0% graded test, increments of 3 m.min−1 every 3 min, starting at 5 m.min−1 until animal exhaustion) was also used to determine the maximum velocity (Vmax) in all groups (CG, LIG and HIG).
Values from 1 to 5 in increments of 0.5 Å were tested for matching performance; of these, 2 Å was the best compromise between sensitivity and positive predictive power (as in the ε optimization).
As one of our "normals" failed to appear in the post test, the number of subjects used in the post assessment dropped from four to three, hence the specificities are expressed in increments of 25% for the pre test compared with increments of 33% for the post test.
The tempo distortions were tested in increments of 10% changes for a range from −50 to +50% to test the limits of the algorithms.
The increment of the increment of the increment of well, the sum of zero and four is four.
Sensitivity analysis of the T-cell population model was performed by running simulations over 1,825 days for each pair of proliferation rate values in the range of α E = [1 2] and α R = [0.25: 1], with a time resolution of 0.05 days (the parameter values were tested in increments of 0.05).
Healthy adult subjects performed a maximal exercise test with step increments of either, 50, 100, or 150 kpm/min depending on a subject's size and age on an electrically braked Collins ergometer.
The cut-off value is systematically varied over the range of all test values by increments of 1.0, and that cut-off value is searched for which the resulting 2 × 2-contingency table produces the maximum Youden index.
