This short form has been used in a number of countries, is robust psychometrically, and overall performance is strongly correlated with scores from the original WHOQoL [ 56].
Though Los Angeles is experiencing rising unemployment and poverty and an immigrant work force struggling to find jobs, the police budget remains robust and the overall crime rate is headed down.
However, analyses based on the generalized UniFrac distances are shown to be more robust and has overall the best performances across a range of possible scenarios.
Through sensitivity analysis of both the method of analysis and the method of handling missing data, it is reported that all methods remained robust, and the overall findings were consistent.
Stanton (2012) also argues that, although income distribution may be an insufficient metric of equity, it is still by far the best-measured component of equity for being associated, for example, with better environmental, health and education outcomes and robust overall social capital.
Statistically significant and robust overall effects of psychosocial intervention were found for both clinical pregnancy (risk ratio=2.01; CI 1.48 to 2.73; p<0.001) and combined psychological outcomes (Hedges g=0.59; CI 0.38 to 0.80; p=0.801).
Although providing a robust examination of toxicant uptake and overall plasma concentrations, this technique is limited by the controlled and potentially atypical usage documented in an invasive clinical setting, the limited range of analytical methods for relevant species in plasma, and the expense and timescale for conducting such studies.
17 Randomised studies, however, support a robust association between local recurrence and overall survival in breast cancer and suggest that for every four local recurrences prevented through improved local treatment, one death from breast cancer is avoided.
Additionally, visual inspection by experts showed that the proposed algorithm is overall robust and succeeds in segmenting the heart up to minor local corrections.
With the exception of one anomalous result for linear alkylbenzene sulfonates, for which an explanation can be provided, the AnBUSDiC method appears to provide overall robust and interpretable results.
