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.
"If you introduce mandatory reporting, all the attention to that and threats of punishment will make people lower their threshold of reporting," Munro said.
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].
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.
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.
This study determined that scaling effects, choice of mapping thresholds and the size of reporting areas all affect the interpretation of results.
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Feb. 15, 2019 the annual update of reporting thresholds for mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and director interlock prohibitions under Section 8 of the Clayton Act.
Clif Burns, an economic sanctions lawyer at the firm Bryan Cave, said there was a strong backlash to the reporting requirements in the corporate community, with multinationals particularly irked about the lack of thresholds and the logistics of reporting to two government regulators.
The effect of reporting thresholds on inferences using environmental right-to-know data". Regulation & Governance 2, no. 3 (September 2008): 293-315.
The use of reporting thresholds in the reporting of treatment emergent adverse events in journal articles and trial registries is problematic as important, but rare, events such as suicidal thoughts, behaviour, and attempts usually fall below the threshold.
Because of the use of reporting thresholds, data on between a median of 406 (range 177-645) and 166 (100-241) treatment emergent adverse events in the randomised phase per trial were not reported in journal articles and Lilly trial registry reports, respectively.
