Sentences with phrase «true magnitude of the association»

Owing to the presence of small - study bias, our results may represent an overestimate of the true magnitude of the association.

Conclusions Owing to the presence of small - study bias, our results may represent an overestimate of the true magnitude of the association.

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Individually significant coefficients were interpreted only if the equation in which they were estimated was significant as a whole in a multivariate test, an approach that minimizes the problem of false positives due to multiple comparisons while avoiding the problem of low power to detect true associations of moderate magnitude that is introduced by more conservative methods (eg, Bonferroni corrections).33 Model comparisons were made using the Akaike information criterion.34