Nevertheless, it is preferable to model materials that are likely to be used in practice, and to accurately know their mechanical properties.
For the determination of current space weather conditions and their impact on the ionosphere, real-time specification is usually preferable to modelling.
In principle, it is preferable to model the counts as a mixture of negative binomial distributions to model over dispersion of the count data.
It would be preferable to model both QTL variances and correlations more generally, but the same computational difficulties exist as for multitrait analyses.
However, it may be preferable to model age continuously using regression splines as has been done in previous papers [ 37, 38].
It is usually preferable to model and estimate prevalence ratios instead of odds ratios in cross-sectional studies when diseases or injuries are not rare.
However, according to the Satorra-Bentler chi-square difference test (χ=13.38, df =3, P=0.004) Model 3 still remained preferable to Model 2. (For the Mplus syntax used to produce Model 3, see Supplementary material).
The nature of the influence of these variables on LiDAR-derived ACD suggested that a stratified approach to carbon mapping was preferable to modeling ACD in continuous fashion (see results).
According to the Satorra-Bentler chi-square difference test (χ=22.19, df =6, P=0.001) Model 5 is preferable to Model 3. Altogether, when comparing the five LGC models for the MMSE scores with or without explicit models for missing data mechanism, it could be seen that the choice of the dropout model had an effect on the growth estimates of the LGC model.
To obtain scaled NLMM estimates in practice, it may be preferable to model the mediation by fitting separate equations, one for each pathway, using maximum likelihood rather than weighted least squares (the only estimation method currently available for probit link models in MPlus).
