34 35 The model with the lowest DIC will be preferred (differences >3 are considered significant).
Models with smaller AIC are preferred; a difference of two points on the AIC between models should be treated as significantly different models [ 35].
This method is preferred because differences in how different communities understand the meaning of speech acts, such as "questioning," may shape in unpredictable ways the results derived from investigator-imposed elicitation, such as "interviewing".
At the population level, the absolute values of preferred orientation differences were <8 deg for 80% of the cells in the mixed contrasts condition, and <6 deg in 80% of the cases in the constant contrast condition.
Between-treatment change-from-baseline differences were preferred over end differences as the primary endpoint.
Using only studies with higher quality and validity scores, or studies with higher rather than lower preference outcomes made no difference (preferred outcomes were patient rated global or pain, lower preference undefined improvement and physician rated global outcomes).
For instance, infants growing up in both Swedish and Canadian-English speaking environments prefer F1 differences, which have the most acoustic saliency, over F2 and F3 differences when distinguishing between vowels (Lacerda 1993, 1994; Curtin et al. 2009).
Median capacities may be preferred if the difference in the minimum and maximum capacities of the sample are significant.
as to which of the three methods of communicating results they preferred; however, the difference in response between HCPs and patients is significant (P<0.001).
Lastly, there was no correlation between the female body condition and the difference (more preferred minus less preferred male) in the proportion of time females spent in front of the two males (Pearson correlation test: females altogether, r = -0.185, P = 0.09, N = 85).
"Presumably Hefce would prefer that differences in performance were sought solely within the two groups of universities rather than between them," said the researchers.
