Methods Publication biases were identified using novel contour enhanced funnel plots, a regression based adjustment method, Egger's test, and the trim and fill method.
Then, we assessed the source of heterogeneity by ethnicity, source of controls, genotyping methods, publication year, and sample size (subjects > 500 in both cases and controls).
A hyperbolic dose-response relationship between endotoxin levels and EA as measured by neutrophil-dependent chemiluminescence was presented in the original methods publication [ 14].
For every eligible study, information was extracted on study characteristics (e.g. methods, publication year), participant characteristics (e.g. socio-demographic data, trauma history), and statistical outcome information (prevalence rates and associated factors).
Combining a trendy new method (publication on the Internet) with the tried and true (public humiliation), the city of New York this week tried to induce delinquent taxpayers to settle up by listing them on the World Wide Web.
> -wrap-foot> The ppiTrim algorithms work best if accurate and fully populated fields for interaction detection method, publication and interaction type are available in its input data set.
Each xref element contains a single primary and optionally multiple secondary references that enable the referencing of both a primary data source, and a related secondary source such as a method publication.
Based on the SPSS statistic analysis, no significant differences were found between the two groups that argue whether or not noise is the major factor in sleep disturbance, in terms of sleep evaluation method, publication year, type of ICU, age of patients, number of patients and duration of stay.
This paper presents a critical review on SCC mixture design methods in publications.
