From the rest of the subjects, the researchers extracted another 30 runners pair - matched to the carb eaters so that there was
no statistical difference in age, BMI, training data, and marathon experience between those two groups of 30.
Not exact matches
Another study of 2,900 Australian infants assessed at
ages 1, 2 3, 5, 8, 10, and 14 years found that infants breastfed for 6 months or longer, had lower externalizing, internalizing, and total behaviour problem scores throughout childhood and into adolescence than never breastfed and infants fed for less than 6 months.8 These
differences remained after
statistical control for the presence of both biological parents
in the home, low income and other factors associated with poor mental health.
Less likely to conceive were women
in the
age group over 37, and here some
differences in outcome were observed, though not of
statistical significance.
To account for this
difference in their analysis, the researchers performed
statistical adjustments and also assessed outcomes for separate
age groups, divided into five - year intervals.
There was a
difference between
age groups
in the mean time it took for symptoms to return to baseline levels (mean number of days: 6.92
in the younger group and 5.66
in the older group, p = 0.087); given a
statistical threshold of 0.05, this
difference was not significant.
An influential 2012 report on 120 monkeys being studied at the National Institute of
Aging (NIA) reported no
differences in survival for caloric restriction animals and a trend toward improved health that did not reach
statistical significance.
We ran a number of
statistical tests, accounting for body mass, lean body mass,
age, sex and fat mass, and still found no
difference in daily energy expenditure between the Hadza and their Western counterparts.
Normalised
age - performance curves have been estimated using standard
statistical techniques which allow for
differences between sites and over time
in wind resources and other factors.
Although
age differences between the groups were not significant,
age was used as a covariate or adjusted for
in all
statistical analyses.
The superscripts
in the sixth and ninth columns denote the
statistical significance of
differences by the spousal
age gap within each marital status.