The absence of data on number of patients exposed to those antidiabetic drugs, and the possibility of a lower threshold of reporting with new drugs, however, severely limits the usefulness of these data for making causal inferences.
One reason for this could be that weight loss, exhaustion, and physical activity are usually self-reported measures, and self-reported measures can be prone to bias related to cultural and socioeconomic differences in thresholds of reporting difficulty [ 38].
More than half of the workers in the study experienced SP in the previous year, but it might be objected that we do not know if there is a large variation between individual's in terms of threshold to report 'should have taken sick leave'.
An enrichment score of 3.0 was taken as the threshold for reporting clusters of genes, given that this level corresponds to significant enrichment of the included categories according to a FDR of 0.05.
"If you introduce mandatory reporting, all the attention to that and threats of punishment will make people lower their threshold of reporting," Munro said.
In order to investigate areas that were significant across both stressful and secure conditions, we used an uncorrected threshold of p<.005 (reported as, "p<.005, two-tailed uncorrected") and computed a logical AND conjunction of the significant regions [16].
In HIV-positive patients presenting with CD4 count between 250-350 cells/μl, immediate initiation of cART is a highly cost-effective strategy using the recommended one-time per capita GDP threshold of $490 reported for Uganda.
In this study, we found the most common defects in presentation of results were using arbitrary p thresholds instead of reporting the precise p values and reporting a p value without showing the test statistics.
We made use of a threshold on the quality of reported interactions that are created by STRING by benchmarking the different interaction data sources to KEGG.
Any lower threshold significantly increases the number of reported variants that are likely false positives, without adding many true positives (see below).
