This is an advantage of propensity score methods compared with more traditional multivariate analysis, in which the comparability of users and non-users can be more difficult to determine.
There are fewer or milder side effects with these long-acting methods, compared with birth control pills.
Among the mothers of babies without birth defects, 1.1 percent had used IVF or related methods, compared with 2.4percentt of mothers of babies with birth defects.
The article concludes from Japanese rice sector experience that there is large scope for production increase by changes in management methods compared with changes in genetic characteristics.
His comments confirm the fears of Premiership players and managers who have criticised the English methods compared with those in Italy, where, in recent years, some of the sport's biggest names have been caught, fined heavily and have served suspensions.
Finally, the experimental results both on UCI datasets and hyperspectral images validate the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed methods compared with some classical dimensionality reduction methods.
Several numerical examples are included that demonstrate the effectiveness of gain-scheduled and robust filters using our proposed methods compared with robust filters using existing methods.
Using empirical data, we demonstrated the degree and direction of bias in the effect estimate when using these methods compared with multiple imputation (MI).
To evaluate the accuracy of estimated fat mass and fat-free mass from bedside methods compared with reference methods in children with chronic illnesses.
The recent use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and whole-exome sequencing (WES) for diagnosing genetic disease prompted Stephen Kingsmore at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine in San Diego, California, USA, and colleagues to examine the effectiveness of these methods compared with CMA.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the impact on breast-feeding patterns of early postpartum initiation of progestin-only birth control methods compared with nonhormonal methods.
