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Performance-based tests of functional capacity are important to utilize in schizophrenia where global measures may underestimate community functioning in the context of impoverished environments and disincentives to return to work.

Creatinine based measures may underestimate declines in GFR if tubular secretion remains intact, particularly when GFR is initially low.

In fact, HRQL measures may underestimate health status for painful, but not fatal diseases, while overestimating health status in the case of serious, but asymptomatic diseases.

1, 2 Although overall time trends in cancer incidence are important to measure the economic and public health impact of cancer in the United States, these measures may underestimate the burden imposed by rare cancers.

Although several studies have found that EMA and recall methods produce comparable results with respect to reports of alcohol use and problems (Hufford et al. 2002; Simons et al. 2010; Wray et al. 2010), other work suggests that retrospective measures may underestimate drinking (Carney et al. 1998; Litt et al. 2000; Todd et al. 2005).

This type of data could be useful particularly in epidemiological research because, as described here, traditional self-report measures may underestimate the respondents' actual alcohol intake, particularly when no information on drink sizes and strengths consumed is available and standard drink sizes and alcohol content are assumed.

When node attributes are accounted for, for generators the reliability-based node importance measure may underestimate some important nodes in terms of TC, and vice versa an issue not observed for substation nodes.

Lastly, this measure may underestimate cumulative incidence for individuals who were infected with 2009 H1N1 but never developed HI antibodies.

Also, we did not capture insulin parameters at baseline; instead, we conducted analyses based on visit 3 measures, which may underestimate the significance of the parameters entered at visit 3 compared with baseline parameters.

Given the time lapse of 1 7 months between exposure to WTC pollutants in the 2 months after 11 September and blood collection at delivery, and given the estimated 3- to 4-month half-life of PAH DNA adducts in white blood cells (Mooney et al. 2005), the measured adduct values may underestimate the effect of the event on the biomarker.

Another potential limitation is that self-report measures of personal stigma may underestimate the level of an individual's personal stigma and that the disparity in GASS personal and perceived stigma is a reflection of social desirability bias rather than two stigma factors.