Sentences with phrase «sensitivity analyses on»

Because longer - term data were available for two out of four trials only, our sensitivity analyses on moderators of longer - term effects were less well - powered.

We conducted a number of sensitivity analyses on the specifications for the analytic approach.

They drew forcing data from three separate sources and ran sensitivity analyses on them.

Now, in 2009 I seek to replicate the analysis and perhaps run some sensitivity analysis on your methods.

Not exact matches

This year's budget provides a sensitivity analysis for yields on 10 - year bonds; should interest rates fall in line with the BMO projections, the Ontario government will see estimated gains of $ 400 million next year alone.

Based on the Department by Finance's fiscal sensitivity analysis, such a downward revision in real growth would reduce the budgetary balance by $ 4.1 billion.

«I could see that there were many things I could do that would be valuable for the organization — cash flow projections, budgets under different scenarios, sensitivity analysis — but time is always at a premium so I ended up spending my time on the must - do things like annual reports and AGLC audits.

See the footnotes to the table for a sensitivity analysis of the shares to be outstanding immediately after the completion of this offering based on various assumed initial public offering prices.

If you are a committed, disciplined buy - and - hold investor with no sensitivity to cyclical market fluctuations (even those as large as the 50 % losses of 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009), and you fully recognize the depth of cyclical risks that regularly accompanies that strategy, I don't encourage a deviation from that discipline based on my analysis of market risk.

Based on the Department of Finance's fiscal sensitivity analysis, such a downward revision in real growth would reduce the budgetary balance by $ 4.1 billion.

This method has its flaws, because it relies on the subjective analysis of testers, who may have varying levels of sensitivity to heat.

In my opinion, we have to pay attention to results of sensitivity analyses because this allows us to see the results based on studies which were definitely known to be eligible or clearly described their methods and outcomes.»

There were insufficient data to carry out any sensitivity analyses to examine any possible effect of risk of bias on results.

For one study that was conducted in China (Wu 2014), data were not presented in the paper or available in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding and so were therefore excluded from the sensitivity analysis.

We performed sensitivity analysis based on quality comparing high - quality trials with trials of lower quality.

Dubbed the «lab - on - a-chip,» the device promises faster result times, reduced costs, minimal sample demands and better sensitivity of analysis when compared with the conventional bench - top instruments now used to examine the tiny biomarkers.

Within the sample, she identified 630 siblings to conduct her analysis on economic mobility and genetic sensitivity.

«We are currently working on parameter sensitivity analysis and Bayesian calibration of this new model and also on a high resolution regional simulation over the U.S. Corn Belt, all of which would not be possible without the precious computational resources provided by Blue Waters.»

It would also be interesting to repeat the study on younger participants and conduct sensitivity analyses as well as measurements of other health parameters, such as blood pressure.»

The Prosigna Assay requires minimal hands - on time and runs on NanoString's proprietary nCounter ® Dx Analysis System, which offers a reproducible and cost - effective way to profile many genes simultaneously with high sensitivity and precision.

While a meta - analysis by Brigo showed high sensitivity and specificity (above 80 %) in differentiating PD and VD using DaTscan, reliance on DaTscan alone may be misleading in certain cases.

Of special note today: A randomized double blind controlled clinical trial on the impacts of probiotics on Alzheimer's demonstrated an improvement in cognitive function, triglycerides, insulin sensitivity and C reactive protein; and a meta - analysis of the lung microbiome in tuberculosis identified specific species that are characteristic of the disease.

Most of the non-model estimates of climate sensitivity are based on the analyses using other forcings such as solar and aerosols, and the assumption that sensitivity to CO2 will be the same, despite the differences in way these forcings couple to the climate system.

Animation illustrates the compilation of the sensitivity analysis of the maximum photoelectrochemical efficiency to semiconductor external radiative efficiency; (a) Maximum efficiency vs. semiconductor external radiative efficiency (ERE) for a single junction photoelectrochemical device, with the color axis indicating the semiconductor bandgap (eV) that corresponds to the maximum efficiency; (b) Animation of efficiency vs. semiconductor bandgap with the external radiative efficiency evolving in time; red dot indicates the bandgap corresponding to the maximum efficiency at a given ERE value that is plotted on (a).

Estimates of the most likely sensitivity from most such studies are, however, consistent with those based on other analyses.

In Part 1 of this article the nature and validity of emergent constraints [1] on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) in GCMs were discussed, drawing mainly on the analysis and assessment of 19 such constraints in Caldwell et al. (2018), [2] who concluded that only four of them were credible.

The analysis in Crucifix (2006) indicates that there is not a good correlation between sensitivity on the LGM side and sensitivity to 2XCO2 in the selection of models he looked at.

The Schmittner et al. analysis marks the insensitive end of the spectrum of climate sensitivity estimates based on LGM data, in large measure because it used a data set and a weighting that may well be biased toward insufficient cooling.

As a sensitivity analysis, we examined only physicians focusing on hospital care (hospitalists), among whom patients are plausibly quasi-randomized to physicians based on the physician's specific work schedules.

In Part 1 of this article the nature and validity of emergent constraints [i] on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) in GCMs were discussed, drawing mainly on the analysis and assessment of 19 such constraints in Caldwell et al (2018; henceforth Caldwell), [ii] who concluded that only four of them were credible.

I am a coauthor on a manuscript in revision, Olson et al., JGR - Atmospheres (2011), which has a climate sensitivity analysis from modern (historical instrumental) data, using a similar UVic perturbed - physics ensemble approach.

To understand their effect on cost of goods, biomanufacturers can conduct sensitivity analyses that evaluate the risk of a process failing to deliver target cells at reproducible quality suitable for reinjection into patients.

A note on ROC analysis and non-parametric estimate of sensitivity.

A multidisciplinary approach may provide the best results in managing the symptoms, based on testing for food sensitivity, Nutritional assessment, urine heavy metal testing, biochemical analysis, Genetic testing, Gastrointestinal functional evaluation.

Sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess the effects of continuous and varying cutoffs of caffeine (tertiles and 100 - mg increments) or caffeinated beverage (1 - cup increments) intakes on reproductive hormones and anovulation.

This article presents an analysis of the diagnostic value of nine different food sensitivity tests run concurrently on a healthy 33 — year - old female with a previous diagnosis of environmental allergies.

In a fourth set of sensitivity tests, I separately excluded the countries from these two regions from the analysis to see whether results were highly dependent on one or the other cluster.

My first sensitivity check focused on cultural differences among countries that were not captured by the continental fixed effects analysis.

Sensitivity analyses based on within - study comparisons indicated that summer reading interventions had significantly larger benefits for children from low - income backgrounds than for children from a mix of income backgrounds.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

However, we believe it is still too early to provide a robust assessment of the progress and attainment of free school pupils due to the small number of free schools which currently have Key Stage 4 results available, especially as sensitivity analysis has indicated that the way schools and pupils are matched has a substantial effect on results.

During data analysis focusing on teachers» attention to content specific language / literacy skills, the researchers, with diverse experience and expertise in content specific literacy, made the decision on teachers» sensitivity for and ability to incorporate appropriate language requirements.

A small article on sensitivity analysis of income producing properties.

This post will explore Sensitivity Analysis (also known as: Parameter Sensitivity) to help guide us on what to expect from each variation.

MacLean, M.M., et al., «The usefulness of sensitivity analysis for predicting the effects of cat predation on the population dynamics of their avian prey.»

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Follow - up receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis on sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) was performed in an effort to assess clinical diagnostic relevance.

While I did replicate the MM07 analysis, the fact that I was dependent on their initial economic data collation means that some potentially important sensitivities did not get explored.

Balmaseda et al suggest that the recent years may not have much effect on the climate sensitivity after all, and according to their analysis, it is the winds blowing over the oceans that may be responsible for the «slow - down» presented in the Economist.

On the other hand, you do want to know if some single dataset is dominating the conclusion (because the whole point of pooling a lot of data sources is to avoid that), so scientists will frequently engage in sensitivity analysis, deleting one dataset or another, and checking to see whether the conclusion is altered meaningfully.