These measures will be used for exploratory subgroup analyses of the effects of the intervention.
These measures will additionally be used for exploratory subgroup analyses of the effects of the intervention.
The principal components extraction method from the covariance matrix with no rotation was used for exploratory factor analyses.
In order to determine the structure of the 57 DSQOLS burden items, the database study sample (N = 1,021) was split randomly in two (using SPSS), with one-half of the sample used for exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) (n = 510) and one-half used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) (n = 511).
This framework could be used for exploratory analytics, confirmatory analyses, meta-analyses, as well as for education and training purposes.
This completely open-science framework may be used for exploratory analytics, confirmatory analyses, meta-analyses, and education and training purposes in a wide variety of fields.
For this study, GSEA was used largely for exploratory analyses, and instead of applying a stringent false discovery rate cut-off, we chose to analyse the top 10 genesets (ranked by normalised enrichment score) that were (1) associated with each of the localities and also (2) associated with low nominal p values (see online supplementary materials and methods).
These trials enroll patients regardless of PI3K pathway status; however, enrollment is dependent upon the mandatory provision of tumor tissue, which can be used for exploratory post hoc analyses.
The three subsamples used for exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses did not differ by gender, age, ethnicity, region, education or employment.
These alternative scoring procedures were used for exploratory purposes in completion of the statistical analyses based on previous research [13, 14, 35].
