Sentence examples for methods and prevalence from inspiring English sources

The final abortion module (#6) described here, queried students on their knowledge of abortion methods, perceived safety of different methods, and prevalence of pregnancy and abortion among peers, and knowledge of and opinions on Brazilian legal indications for abortion.

More generally, this study has found that the minimax method and prevalence matching methods give very similar results.

For the MCS, the Youden Index and the (0,1) methods gave cutpoints of 51.7 and 52.1 respectively, minimising the error rate gave a cutpoint of 44.8 and both the minimax method and prevalence matching gave a cutpoint of 48.9.

For the MHI-5, the Youden Index and the (0,1) methods both gave a cutpoint of 76, minimising the misclassification rate gave a cutpoint of 60 and the minimax method and prevalence matching gave a cutpoint of 68.

Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were used to compare the scales and define cutpoints for the MHI-5 and MCS, using the following optimisation criteria: the Youden Index, the point closest to (0,1) on the ROC curve, minimising the misclassification rate, the minimax method, and prevalence matching.

Our aim was to determine the prevalence of CL using different methods and the prevalence of E. canis infection in Presidente Prudente as well as the spatial dispersion of the disease in western São Paulo state, Brazil.

The decision to perform RHC in this study was based on screening positive to the ASCS screening algorithm (detailed in Methods), and the prevalence of PAH in the highly selected participants in this study was higher than the usually accepted prevalence of 10%.

Potentially pathogenic enteric organisms were detected in 19 kittens by routine methods and 26 (prevalence 45%) by all methods.

Although dysgeusia is a common adverse event in chemotherapy patients; it has not been evaluated using objective methods, and its prevalence and frequency have not been quantified.

There is still considerable confusion and debate about the appropriate methods for analyzing prevalence studies, and a number of recent papers have argued that prevalence ratios are the preferred method and that prevalence odds ratios should not be used.

In particular, it has been argued that prevalence ratios are the preferred method and that prevalence odds ratios (PORs) should not be used.