However, the PAR estimates using the risk factor levels of urban men in the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2002 were lower than expected.
In the present study, we performed multivariate analysis for determination of MDA-LDL by using the factors of LDL-C level, age, BMI, HbA1c, Cr, BNP and Brinkman index; however, there may be other factors associated with MDA-LDL that act in a direct or indirect manner.
The data belonging to the performance criteria, which are determined, are obtained with the help of the running scenarios combining with the factor levels using Taguchi design.
Significance of this difference is calculated using 1000 random permutations of the factor levels.
Although Extraversion showed no association with drug use on the factor level, facet-level analyses revealed a consistent association between high scores on E5 Excitement-Seeking and all typE5 Excitement-Seeking
Though we have used the risk factor levels of urban men in the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2002 to calculate the PARs, it should be caution when applied those results into the general population.
In addition, the costs for using the subjects and for altering the factor levels between consecutive observations are also taken into account.
This study commences by employing an orthogonal array using the Taguchi method to calibrate the factor levels of a heuristic algorithm and to estimate the percent contribution from various individual factors.
Response surfaces are usually much too complex to be able to easily model the entire surface with a single function, so a simple model (one that is linear in the factor levels) is used to find the local slope (the slope in a specified area) of the surface and point the direction to the maximum (minimum) response.
These factors and the factor levels were used for the following conjoint procedure.
