Thankfully, in the United States justice system, the threshold for establishing criminal behavior or a civil liability is much higher than the threshold for your opinion, my opinion or Michiko Kakutani's opinion.
In a highly critical report last year, the Commons justice select committee suggested that many people convicted of murder under joint enterprise rules should have been charged with manslaughter or lesser crimes and that the threshold for establishing culpability should be raised.
These data indicate that there is a dose-dependent immunological threshold for establishing high-level protection against malaria that can be achieved by IV administration of a vaccine that is safe and meets regulatory standards.
While the 40% ratio is commonly used, there is no definitive threshold for establishing when expenditures become catastrophic [14].
Therefore, we used an absolute threshold for establishing a link, in that we accepted a pair of records as a link if the combination of postal code and birth date was exact and unique.
Because each of these linkages has passed the recommended threshold for establishing significant evidence of linkage, a susceptibility gene or genes is likely to be found eventually within these linkage regions, although most remain to be identified.
Using Bonferroni adjustment with the estimated number of informative markers in the genome, a common threshold for establishing significance in GWAS is generally considered to be p < 5 e - 8 or p < 1 e - 8, for α e = 0.05 and 0.01, respectively [ 7].
Evidence suggests that clinicians have been using HbA1c in the evaluation of patients without known diabetes in the absence of clearly accepted threshold values for establishing a diagnosis.
Within the 1b category (i.e. below our threshold for established or persistent disorders), 15.5% of subjects reported overt suicidal ideation (37/239).
Rationales and procedures for establishing these thresholds are described below.
