When it comes to thinking about empire, Ferguson's preoccupation with material forces allows him to undertake what amounts to a cost-benefit analysis, weighing the good that imperial regimes have done against the bad without being unduly bothered by the kind of moral questions that traditionally concern the left.
The decision to initiate PEP should be based upon a risk/benefit analysis weighing up the risk of an individual acquiring HIV and the potential for harm due to PEP.
Appropriately for a presenter steeped in statistics, the BBC's erstwhile economics editor drew up a cost-benefit analysis weighing up the pros and cons of replacing Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight's lead anchor, to little effect.
Over the phone, he offered up a remarkable impromptu analysis, weighing Jeter's career and current statistics against the inevitable decline that had befallen, said Rose, even "me, Willie, Hank," the last two being Mays and Aaron.
It has been found that the final results mostly depend on the uncertainty in measurement mainly due to repeatability, final volume prepared for analysis, weighing balance and sampling by HVS.
Unfortunately that case ended in a mistrial, so we have to do some cost-benefit analysis, weighing our odds of getting Officer Goodson versus a second shot at getting Officer Porter,'" Jaros said.
If more than one possible phylogeny was generated for a group, all possible phylogenies were used for further analysis, weighed by their posterior probabilities.
17 Also, the participants differed from those in our meta-analysis: on average they were younger (mean age 62 v 75 years), heavier (mean weight 76 v 68 kg; 34% in Women's Health Initiative v 10% of women in our meta-analysis weighed >80 kg), had higher calcium intakes (mean 1150 v 830 mg/day), and a higher proportion were using hormone replacement therapy (52% v <3% in our meta-analysis).
Another future direction will be to incorporate estimates of gene tree uncertainty into the supertree analysis by weighing the splits differently when computing the RF distance.
Although replication across different samples provides information on the genuineness of an initial association, meta-analysis appropriately weighs the effect and sample sizes across different replications samples.
