This stepwise algorithm incorporated both the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for EGPA and GPA and the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHCC) definition of EGPA, GPA, and MPA [ 2].
Reasons cited for success included good training and staff understanding, a local champion, support from upper management, being able to modify the checklist, distribution of responsibility, the feeling of ownership by team members, a stepwise implementation process which incorporated real-time feedback, and enhanced communication and teamwork.
A summary of the stepwise discriminant analysis with the four incorporated discriminating variables is listed in Table 5.
The current study incorporated permutated re-sampling, training/testing validation, and stepwise procedure to objectively compare performance of prognostic expression profiles.
Multiple linear regression analysis, using a forward stepwise selection procedure, was performed and the best-fitting model incorporated age (P < 0.01) and family status (P < 0.05) as significant predictors of WTP, providing an explanatory power of 8.1%.
The main pathway of sulfate assimilation in plants involves the adenylation of the anion and its stepwise reduction to sulfite and then sulfide which is finally incorporated via O-acetylserine (OAS) into cysteine (Cys), a key intermediate from which the essential amino acid methionine (Met), the tripeptide glutathione (GSH), and most sulfur containing compounds are synthesized [ 2, 5].
To determine the variable that was highly predictive of rehospitalization, a stepwise Cox regression was conducted, which included a complete model (this model incorporated the variables with significance levels lower than 0.2 in the univariate analysis) and utilized a withdrawal probability of 0.15.
26 As cardiac surgery interventions are incorporated in multiple Dutch HSMR models (ie, several diagnosis groups), one model for cardiac surgery was constructed using stepwise backward selection based on Akaike's Information Criterion.
Stepwise subsampling was performed.
Stepwise regression and associated statistics.
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