If contact precautions cause a 28.1% reduction in the transmission rate (i.e. 1 - (β2/ β1), using the pooled estimate from all the wards), then an additional 5% reduction in total transmission rates would be gained with instantaneous swab results, suggesting a limit to the potential benefit in using rapid screening technologies.
After pooling the smooth estimates of standard deviation from the two channels, we used the pooled estimates to compute a t-statistic for each gene [ 13, 15].
We used the pooled estimates from these five imputed datasets to report odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence intervals (CI).
For two studies (Calle et al, 2003; Kuriyama et al, 2005) that reported relative risks for two categories of BMI that fell into the category representing overweight or obesity, we pooled the relative risks and used the pooled estimate in the meta-analysis.
Because many of the 209 cities were small, with low daily mortality counts, we sought to improve the statistical precision of our effect estimates by pooling within clusters, and using the pooled effect estimates to shrink the variation in individual city results, as described below.
Estimating the decay of LD with distance using the pooled r estimates for all genes failed to reflect the heterogeneous levels of LD among the genes, evident in the variable estimates of linkage and recombination across genes.
Additionally, in small-sample classification, reducing the number of estimated parameters by using the pooled covariance estimate may lead to superior performance, even if the class covariance matrices are substantially different.
We selected BPb measured contemporaneously with IQ for further analysis using the pooled data set [adjusted estimate of natural-log lead (95% confidence interval; CI) on IQ = −2.70 (−3.74 to −1.66 ], because this was the measure to which Lanphear et al. (2005) devoted most attention, even though it had the second smallest coefficient among the four measures presented.
To circumvent the insufficient number of observations, matrix coefficients were estimated using the pooled sample.
