It is important to note that the correlation threshold (T) may significantly influence the identification of the neighbors (i.e., links), and hence, the outcomes of the methods.
For the simulated data, we also compared expected outputs based on defined ecological species traits with actual outcomes of the methods.
The evaluation of the two methods was based on an assessment of the participants' and observers' perceptions of the processes and outcomes of the methods, against a set of evaluation criteria, spanning both the individual and group level of analysis.
The inclusion of decreasing Ωa (decreasing ocean pH) does not appear to significantly change the outcomes of the methods presented, beyond lowering long-term estimates of coral cover to some degree (on the order of 20% 30% at the end of century).
This implies that, if M1 and M2 are significantly different, there is a confidence level of 95% that the differences between the outcomes of the methods are not caused by random variation.
The outcome of the method is an "extended Davenport peak factor" (EDPF) that relates the descriptors of the resultant, the parameters of the distribution function of the peaks, and the probability of not exceeding a given threshold.
Given the lack of an optimal mean of determining these, the limited sensitivity of the safety performance increases the level of confidence that the safety benefits estimated from the combination of the simulation and crash prediction models are not a spurious outcome of the method used to calibrate the crash prediction model.
However, the outcome of the method effect indicates that differences in responses to negatively worded items are worth studying in their own right, and not just as substantively irrelevant artefact/noise that are theoretically uninteresting and need to be eliminated (cf. Marsh 1996).
The potential outcomes of this method as a treatment for the slowly progressive process of cartilage degeneration, as commonly occurs in human OA, are still unknown.
This is because outcomes of the detection method, added for implementation purposes, were neither optimal nor congruent with outcomes of the screening method added for research purposes.
