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Cutoff values were chosen either by maximum value of Youden's index (J = sensitivity + specificity-1) from the receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curves or by median values when ROC curves were not available.
In future we will attempt to systematically address this issue and evaluate, for example, how often the Cochrane reviews did not pool data from the available median values when they pooled data on continuous outcomes.
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All four HPV subtypes were detected at similar detection intensities differing by ±20% from the median value, when hybridized through the barcode to an in-house barcode-chip (Figure 5).
There was no significant difference in the median hCG values when comparing the group that completed low-risk treatment with those that required a change of treatment.
Good agreement was achieved for all datasets (RMS norm values of 1.0 to 1.5, median value 1.1) when arterial concentrations measured at two time points were used in the estimation process, but inclusion of a third sample did not significantly improve agreement for five of the six datasets (one p value of 0.002, all other p values >0.35).
The dashed line represents the median value obtained when bacteria were absent.
For AdheSE and Clearfil SE Bond adhesives, shelf-life simulation for 8 and 12 weeks demonstrated similar median bond strength values when compared to 6 months of water storage, which were significantly less than the μTBS median values obtained for the baseline (24 h) and 4-week shelf-life simulation groups (Figure 2A and C).
Median values were similar when restricted to data from participants in mother child pairs (Table 2).
Interestingly, however, a patent describing oral administration of low doses of diazoxide in SOD1G93A mice reported improved median values for survival when compared to non-diazoxide-supplemented SOD1G93A mice [ 190].
With the exception of month of questionnaire return, we used missing indicators when covariate data were missing for more than 2% of our sample and replaced missing data with median or mode values when covariate data were missing in less than 2% of our sample.
In specific cases, however, it is better to report either the median (central value when the results are arranged in order of size) or the mode (the value obtained most often).
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