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The assumption underlying this system is that positive findings on earlier, more basic tests of neurotoxicity in adult animals will “trigger” the EPA to request more extensive testing by manufacturers, including tests in immature animals.
After selecting all LRI records, encounters for each individual were grouped into episodes of illness on the assumption that for any individual patient, a subsequent visit for LRI within six weeks of a preceding LRI visit would be likely to represent follow-up for the same infection, whereas widely separated LRI visits probably represented separate events.
It has been assumed that the order of magnitude difference in developmental rate between the two forms is due to diapause in the sexually-produced embryos [ 8 ] . However, detailed embryological studies of sexually-produced embryos has yet to be conducted, so this remains an assumption.
The assumption for piece-wise linear response cannot be tested statistically, and no defined statistical procedure is provided to test the assumption for monotonicity.
The third assumption is that these two assumptions hold across the signal-intensity range.