Thus, if 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 failures were suspected in an RSA study, the associated sample sizes would have to be 54, 70, 85, 100, or 114, respectively, in order for the prosthesis design to meet the benchmark.
Confounding bias was suspected in all studies, mainly because not all relevant confounders were adjusted for or the choice of confounders was not justified.
The latter should include alcohol-based hand-cleaning programmes since cross-contamination between patients and contaminated tap water was suspected in our study.
Finally, our microsatellite data suggest, without strong statistical support, an introduction of the Cocos Island population from the Costa Rican mainland, a scenario already suspected in previous studies (Solomon and Mikheyev 2005; Mikheyev and Mueller 2007).
The test set was compiled from new, adult PTB suspects participating in a study investigating early mortality in PTB [ 9].
Predominance of women in the reporting group is another relevant finding of the study; this difference was suspected in previous studies (Araya et al. 2001; Olivares et al. 2001) and was obtained in the present study by using both chi-square analysis and the counting process.
It builds upon our two earlier studies [ 17, 18] that first uncovered these systems and revealed that their diversity was much greater than what was suspected in initial experimental studies [ 44].
He studied 76, involving 60 suspects, in a Brighton police station and found that 35 of the suspects made self-incriminating admissions and another four confessed after the interviews ended.
A recall bias could be suspected in view of the study design, which would have led to underestimate a negative association.
Resistance to ivermectin in the equine roundworm is suspected in Norway, but a proper study on this has not been conducted yet.
