However, these 'growth modulation indexes' are valid only if the underlying assumption that there is a strong correlation between the two TTP/PFS is verified.
Since the frequency of change was significantly correlated with the amount of change for taking and giving choices (reported below), both indexes are valid.
In short, Table 2 suggests that (1) the composite index is valid to test whether the information asymmetry problems affect capital structure decisions, and (2) the variability of corporate finance measures affecting information asymmetry comes from the cross-section (among firms) rather than from the relative change in each company (within firms).
Demonstrating that the colonization index is valid for detecting SAP patients at risk for candida infection raises the additional issue of antifungal prophylaxis.
In conclusion, the Persian version of the OIDP index is valid and reliable for use in 20 50 year old working adult Iranians.
While we acknowledge SES may be measured with some error in our study, we have evidence that our index of SES is of sufficient quality to uncover important SES and cancer associations as seen in the literature (SES and breast cancer [ 22] and Hodgkin-lymphoma [ 36]), providing certain confidence that our SES index is valid.
Although some severe patients, such as intubated patients and those on catecholamines, were treated in general wards, as sometimes occurs in Japan [ 30, 31], and were thus included in the analysis, the issue of whether the index is valid for most critically ill patients, e.g. those admitted to the intensive care unit, requires further examination.
Merit exponents (and indices) are only valid in a certain range of property values.
The obtained B2 indices are only valid if they satisfy an additional relation, which follows from the design equation for primary loads.
