Planché's sprawling, colorful libretto magically sweeps that couple, Huon, a medieval French knight, and Reiza, the caliph of Baghdad's daughter, through a series of trials to test the strength of their love.
This scenario has played out over and over, without any distinction for the type of trial, the strength of the prosecution evidence, and most of all without any consideration for the effective outcome of the various lawsuits.
Although the present study is not a randomised clinical trial, the strength of the present study is that it is a long-term clinical observational cohort study that provides valuable, long-term clinical data on the clinical course of shortened dental arches.
Because of multiple testing, and the fact that QOL measures are considered secondary end points in the trial, the strength of statistical evidence for differences between groups was pre-determined at a more stringent level than the overall trial design of α = 0.05.
In one trial the strength training group performed better in gait analysis, particularly in analyses of the sum of ankle, knee and hip angles at mid-stance compared to the controls, though no differences were found in any of these angles analyzed separately (limited evidence) [ 47].
Thankfully, Mullan's young actresses survive this and other trials on the strength of their grace and good temper, although, as Bernadette shows, if naughtiness was enough to land you in the asylum, bloody-mindedness was what you needed to get out.
First, the small number of included trials limits the strength of the conclusions that were drawn.
The small number, moderate methodological quality and the high heterogeneity of the available trials reduce the strength of current findings.
We will take into account the fact that I values are affected by the number of studies, the magnitude and direction of effects in individual trials, and the strength of evidence of heterogeneity.
A benefit of the PROMIS pediatric measures in clinical trials is the strength of standardized measures in repeated administration that accounts for normative developmental changes while maintaining scores on the same metric.
