The N.C.A.A. requires colleges to certify that athletes have some form of insurance, but it does not specify a level of coverage.
The Bayesian approach allowed us to model the hierarchical structure of the data, estimate the magnitude of regional-scale effects, and to specify a level of uncertainty about individual study estimates.
In our protocol we specify a level of ≥8 mm Hg, as our patients are not under mechanical ventilation to control respiration but to provide general anesthesia.
The WHO definition does not specify a level of harm in the initial identification of a potential ADR and may capture more minor ADRs, which while having a significant impact on quality of life, do not lead to serious outcomes such as death, disability, or hospitalization.
We observed that valuation estimates for the less severe outcomes were sensitive to specification of severity level, such that specifying a higher level of severity produced estimates at the higher end of those reported in earlier studies.
The value of d' is thus effectively a summary statistic of observer sensitivity, and thresholds can be estimated by specifying a criterion level of d' (a value of 1.0, common in the literature, was used here).
Specifying an alpha level of 0.01 and a beta of 0.20 (study power = 0.80), we require a sample of at least 192 patients (96 per group) to ensure detection of a half standard deviation in improvement.
Users can specify a custom level of significance when assessing the validity of homology based annotation.
At the end of last year John Kasich, the governor, signed a first-of-its-kind law that requires new crimes to specify a threshold level of intent, or be declared void.
In the group of occasional smokers, 88 individuals also specified a certain level of daily cigarette consumption.
