In order to test if the patterns of comparisons between pre and post-epidemic genetic diversity were in accordance with what was expected for populations which experienced high mortality events in a short time, we simulated bottlenecked populations for long lived species with overlapping generations (BOTTLESIM program [72]).
It may be an obvious methodological observation, but it is worth noting again that different patterns of comparisons between clinical groups, ideally across multiple time points, can provide different insights about the underlying problems.
I heard an amazing speaker, Steven Furtick, say this about the pattern of comparison: When we are comparing, most often we are looking at someone's "highlight reel" when we are knee deep in our own "behind the scenes" footage.
Conducting cluster analyses use the basis of preferences for leisure activities and actual participation of breastfeeding mothers to identify the existence of mothers' patterns for comparison of a set of demographics with participation in leisure activities and profiles of leisure constraints.
A summary of the pattern of comparisons for the included RCTs is presented in Table 1 and detailed characteristics of the included RCTs are presented in Table 2.
Differential cohort sizes and large variances in cost events may also introduce problems; however, the pattern of comparisons showed relatively good internal consistency, supporting the validity of the findings.
In our study, PCR amplification of the complete 16S rRNA gene and subsequent RFLP analysis enabled us to obtain band patterns for comparison of the different isolates from the same patient.
A 1 was assigned to all insignificant comparisons and 2563 probe sets had the 111111 patterns of pairwise comparisons.
As we require the number of gene families that show the same pattern of rate comparison among species to be greater than 100, this effectively minimizes the amount of stochastic annotation error.
Finally, we were also able to use age-specific and sex-specific standardised weight scores which have the advantage of clearly depicting the growth patterns of children in comparison to the standard growth reference.
