Factor 1, "animal husbandry risk" (10% of variance), included items attributing avian influenza to market practices, live animal sales, and poor home and market hygiene.
MMR vaccination rates in Ticino are generally high and, therefore, there is a risk of low variance in the outcome measure.
A second potential weakness of the study resides in the fact that measles vaccination rates in Ticino are relatively high and, therefore, there is a risk of low variance in the outcome measure.
27 32 A newer and more promising imputation method is multiple imputation (MI), which involves creating several different plausible imputed data sets based on a Bayesian approach and then combining the results obtained from each of them, hence reducing the risk of underestimating variance.
We then optimized the sensitivities over the thresholds to obtain the maximal sensitivity for every specificity, average risk, and proportion of variance explained.
Using a case study and a specific measurement of overconfidence in our research allowed us to reduce the risk of common method variance (Podsakoff et al. 2003) by using different measurement designs for different constructs.
Notwithstanding, the risk of common-method variance often is less important than assumed [ 53].
In order to diminish the risk of inter-rater variance, the interviews were performed by two trained persons.
However LOCF carries a risk of bias and variance of treatment effect will be under-estimated as natural variation in measurement is factored out [ 32].
Especially studies examining depression and anxiety are at risk of common method variance, because the respondents' affective states may influence their ratings of other concepts [ 60].
