In particular it is clear that small studies that have been published are those with relatively large effect sizes (those points on the lower right of the plot). This funnel plot asymmetry suggests publication bias. Full size image Table 3 Characteristics of included studies Full size table ...
Although the regression test for funnel plot asymmetry was not significant (z = 1.52, P = .13), a visual inspection of the funnel plot revealed asymmetry, indicating possible publication bias. The trim-and-fill analysis indicated that there were 3 potentially missing studies on the left side ...
What is muscle injury, and how does it heal? What works? What doesn’t? And here’s a curve ball: is your muscle even actually physically damaged? Muscle strain and pain are usually woven together, and often pain alone is mistaken for injury. And there are some other kinds of injury ...
External economies of scale describe factors beyond the control of a company that are present in the same industry and that lead to cost benefits. These factors may be positive or negative industry or economic trends. External economies of scale, therefo
Funnel plots representing the risk of publication bias, along with the results of Egger's test for small study effects, are reproduced in Fig. 3. Visually there is a suggestion of asymmetry with under-representation of smaller studies with non-significant results, however this does not serve as...
and fields of action. There is always a certain asymmetry of information between companies and external stakeholders, which can be reduced through communication and transparency. Accordingly, transparency plays an important role in the understanding of CDR, since it is only through transparency that the...
We’d spotted one wallaby already that seemed to have a bony kneecap on one leg, and a non-bony one on the other leg, so that asymmetry got us excited. What’s surprising to learn about thawing animals for science? Well, my first thought is that it’s beautiful. I don’t tend to...
Although SCI resulted in acute dysbiosis visualized in the beta diversity plots, there was no significant effect of injury or FMT on the alpha diversity (which does not necessarily correlate with changes of individual bacteria; Figure 3C). Next, we looked at the four most abundant bacteria at ...
(retinography) when the cup-to-disc ratio ≥ 0.5 and <0.9, in the presence of asymmetry between the two eyes ≥ 0.2 and localized thinning of the neural ring, or for diagnostic clarification in ocular hypertensive patients (ocular pressure above 21 mmHg). It makes it possible to diagnose ...
Skewness can be as a measure of the asymmetry of the data set around a mean. Determination of Flicker Contribution Level by Using Proposed Index Several mathematical properties of the EE distribution, including expectation, variance, moment generating function (mgf), asymmetry and kurtosis coefficients...