Mr Posner was a founder of the law-and-economics movement, an influential view of law which, crudely, recommends economic efficiency as the test of fair allocation.
A spearman rank correlation test of the allocations made using the two approaches shows high correlation, a ρ of 0.96 significant at the 1% significance level.
Taken together, the resulting approach can help risk managers in the regulatory authorities and the food industry by permitting them to prioritize testing and allocation of resources to those situations in which the need (i.e., the potential for harm to health) is greatest.
Continuous outcome measures will be analyzed using generalized linear models including treatment allocation, test of interaction term between allocation and the vignette used, as well as variables associated with attrition or baseline imbalances between the groups, if any.
Table 7 shows the results of individual tests of association between reporting of allocation concealment and each of the variables.
Additional experimentation will be required to test whether these plastic patterns of allocation from wings to eyes are adaptive.
When the effect of the intervention was analysed by multivariable logistic regression with antibiotic prescribing as outcome variable and allocation to CRP testing, URTI diagnosis, symptom score, any chest finding, any comorbidity, and perceived patient preference for antibiotic as explanatory variables, the OR of allocation to CRP testing was 0.4 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.18 0.89).
A tracer test was performed at the time of allocation of ewes and lambs to pasture using 2 worm-free lambs per plot, derived from the previous year lamb crop.
In the case of allocation to the rapid diagnostic test group, the test was carried out by a member of the study team and the results recorded.
Saplings were excavated in 2004 and 2008 for analysis of biomass allocation and testing of foliar N. In 2008, mean survival rate differed significantly among species at 0.14 for paper birch, 0.57 for yellow birch, and 0.76 for eastern hemlock, respectively.
