Sentence examples for limited estimations from inspiring English sources
Since robust data on absolute age-specific and sex-specific mortality risks in large cohorts are limited, estimations on prognosis of dementia from large population studies are needed.
An upper and a lower bound of the limiting estimation error covariance are obtained.
In case the hazard ratio was not directly given in the publication, we extracted summary statistics from Kaplan Meier product-limit estimations and estimated hazard ratios according to methods proposed by Parmar 1998 [26].
Data regarding the incidence of HPS are limited and estimations of prevalence vary as different definitions for HPS are used.
Nagasaki et al. (2006) and Yoshida et al. (2008) reported that the practical relevance of the SMC was limited by estimations of only a few parameters.
A meta-analysis was performed using the hazard ratio as primary effect measure, which was estimated from Cox proportional hazard models or from summary statistics of Kaplan Meier product-limit estimations.
Using Kaplan Meier product limit estimations, the one-year actuarial survival rate for this cohort was 46% and the two-year survival rate was 33%.
These subjective reports might have been limited by estimation bias and should be interpreted with caution.
We limited the estimation of the used resources narrowly, because we wanted to study whether the costs of data collection and setting up a trial could be made cheaper.
Therefore, when resources are limited the estimation of hypertension prevalence might be based on only one visit, while resources can be more efficiently used to target high-risk people who will benefit the most.
For the three outcomes for which meta-analyses were possible for both criteria (large for gestational age, preeclampsia and cesarean delivery), the magnitude of the effects were similar for the WHO and the IADPSG criteria (1.53 vs. 1.73; 1.69 vs. 1.71; 1.37 vs. 1.23, respectively), although the inconsistency across studies limited aggregate estimation for the IADPSG criteria.
