This is a reasonable enough manner to proceed given the fact that the desire and demand for innovations are adjudged by an underlying comparison to an extant outcome.
However, this type of cost-effectiveness study has not yet been published regarding the underlying comparison.
Basic assumptions underlying indirect comparisons include that results from different trials should be sufficiently homogeneous [ 61] by either fixed-effects models or random-effects models.
The core assumption underlying indirect comparison methodology is similarity of treatment effects [6].
2 The description of important assumptions underlying indirect comparison may not be clear in some methodological studies.
Studies were considerably heterogeneous in type of mass-media intervention, outcome measures, underlying theory, comparison groups and design.
RNAPII peaks were called using MACS v1.4.2 (Zhang et al., 2008) and underlying sequence comparison done with XXmotif (Hartmann et al., 2013).
The social comparison literature suggests three basic motives underlie social comparison behavior: self-evaluation, self-enhancement, and self-improvement (e.g., Festinger, 1954; Suls & Miller, 1977; Wills, 1981).
Far from denying the validity of Bengtsson's questions, the reviewers set out ways he could improve the work: "A careful, constructive, and comprehensive analysis of what these ranges mean, and how they come to be different, and what underlying problems these comparisons bring would indeed be a valuable contribution to the debate.
In the context of a European tendering procedure for a public building, design quality perceptions were analysed for underlying dimensions and comparisons made between lay and expert judgements.
