Quality was downgraded for risk of bias where any one of the studies in the meta-analysis did not meet the threshold of six items on the risk of bias tool, 15 for consistency where substantial statistical heterogeneity existed according to the Cochrane Handbook, 13 and for precision where fewer than 400 participants were included in the comparison.
There's no linear consistency where, for instance, each piece is consistently spaced, where each has a center point of sixty inches.
Meinshausen and Bühlmann (2010) showed that this additional randomization achieves model selection consistency even in situations where the necessary conditions for consistency of the lasso are violated.
For consistency, where possible, prevalence rates were taken from the same source.> -wrap-foot>> -wraIHSoot> aIHS Research, 2014, data on file Where a reference source gave a range, a mid-point estimate was used.
§Subscales of McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (scale 0-10), where 0 is undesirable and 10 is desirable; for consistency, individual items where 10 indicated undesirable states (for example, 0=not at all depressed and 10=extremely depressed) were re-scaled.
Where the bigger houses strive for consistency, these small-production Calvados are often strikingly distinctive.
In all other cases, the standard error was estimated using bootstrapping as described below; research always continues to develop analytical estimators (e.g. Mandallaz 2013), but bootstrapping was applied here for consistency across cases where analytical estimators are less well known or not established.
For consistency and comparability, where parents answered 'no' to this item and consequently omitted the following seven questions, these children were not included in analyses (N = 20).
All PM2.5 concentrations are given at 35% relative humidity, except for comparisons involving ground-level measurements outside North America, where the 50% standard is adopted for consistency with the ground-level measurements.
For applications where consistency across methods is not important, these cutoffs could be chosen using downstream quality metrics such as those presented in Figure 4.
