Spike-in recovery up to 130% could be attributed to the +/−30% error rate associated with spike-in, but beyond that might indicate non-specificity in the assay, with blood cells possibly erroneously scored as CTCs.
The purpose of the non-response analysis was to compare the known demographic and cardiovascular health-related characteristics of participants and non-participants, to reveal potential outcome differences that might indicate a non-response bias.
(At the same time I want to point out that Germany is again more complex than I might indicate to non-European readers unfamiliar with the scene here. Hamburg and Munich too have their own startup eco-systems and local VCs. So it's not ALL in Berlin by any means. But Berlin right now has, in general, the most internationally-focused startups).
It might indicate a non-CIDR binding site existing on the surface of IRBCs.
These results might indicate that non-aggressive ADHD patients had a higher potential for improving in neurocognitive function than aggressive ones.
Ideally, a separate investigation on non-participants is recommended to reveal potential outcome differences that might indicate reasons for non-participation and subsequent potential non-participation bias[ 5, 23].
This might indicate that in non-radiotherapy treated patients, the effect of BRE expression on DFS is dependent on adjuvant treatment.
This might indicate that the non-Jewish female population in Israel (mostly Arabs) has higher viral hepatitis mortality, and including them in the reference population attenuates the SMR for female migrants from the FSU.
The attrition rate was calculated for all the drinking profiles in order to ascertain whether certain drinking profiles were associated with a greater or lesser degree of loss relative to the overall sample, For example, if heavy drinkers had a higher rate of loss, this might indicate that their non-participation at wave 5 was due to ill-health or death.
Some control sera also reacted: this could be a cross reaction, or might indicate previous exposure to non infective trypanosomes, such as T. b. brucei, circulating alongside T. b. rhodesiense within the tsetse fly and the domestic animal reservoir.
