Sentence examples for referent method from inspiring English sources

The referent method for serologic diagnosis of leptospirosis is the microscopic agglutination test (MAT).

Disparity in results between clinical and reference laboratories could also contribute to this trend; use of the E test (AB Diodisk, Solna, Sweden) by clinical laboratories might vary from the referent method (broth microdilution) by one half or one dilution (18 ).

PMS2 NGS analysis of the eight positive controls identified single-nucleotide variations not detected with targeted referent methods.

In the every-third-day referent sampling method, day-of-week variable was included in the regression model.

We tested the effects of time (15min, 6 and 18h) on IGF-IR/IR and Akt (Ser 473) phosphorylation after stimulation with 10nM of each ligand (21), and compared by deriving phosphorylation ratios with insulin as referent (details in Methods).

The case-crossover design (Maclure 1991) requires a choice of referent strategy or a method for choosing control time periods (referent windows).

Since the development of the case-crossover design, the time-stratified approach has been recognized as being the least-biased method among referent (control) selection strategies (Basu et al. 2005; Janes et al. 2005).

Janes et al. suggest using the time stratified approach as a standard method in selecting referent periods, as it ensures unbiased estimation and avoids bias resulting from time trends in the exposure [ 25].

It is therefore important to consider whether our method for selecting referents may have introduced a bias.

Bi-directional time-stratified methods commonly select referent days to include non-case days on the same day of week, month, and year as the event, which can control for seasonal trends and day-of-week [ 52, 53].

We also developed a method to define visual referents in the presentation slides that are pointed and referred by meeting participants.