Standard engineering procedures, such as adopting high return periods as reference events, are a simplified means of handling the complex and multivariate nature of snow avalanches.
In this section, we choose to address the selected periods as reference: 2020, 2025, and 2030, which will serve us as indicators for the effectiveness and potential reduction of METS mechanism, because finding from periods of 2010 and 2015 are similar to the BAU state.
Deformation was calculated using benchmarks BM34 (for data between April 2006 and April 2007) and BM25 (for all other data periods) as references (See Fig. 1 for locations of BM34 and BM25).
Quarter was considered as a unit of time, taking the first period as reference.
Expected cases were computed, taking Spanish breast cancer mortality rates, broken down by age and five-year period, as reference.
We chose January 1st, 2011, the middle of the study period, as reference date for the population data.
We compared differences in rates of hospital contacts between the observation periods using rate ratios with the pre-SRE period as reference.
Selecting the preceding commitment period as reference level (moving base period emissions, mBPE) will level the impact of age-class legacies and extreme natural disturbances to a more tolerable magnitude.
We used Poisson regression analyses to obtain more reliable estimates of overdiagnosis, with confidence intervals, and adjusted for differences in age distribution using 5-year age groups, and for the fact that Funen introduced screening 3 years after Copenhagen, and for geographical differences in incidence, using the pre-screening period as reference.
References found in the surviving mathematical writings from this period, as well as references made in bibliographies compiled for dynastic annals, indicate that there are many gaps in the textual record.
We choose to address the following selected periods as a reference: 2007, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2025, and 2030, which will serve us as indicators for the effectiveness and potential reduction of the METS mechanism.
