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Logistic regression analyses (final column) indicated that a difference of 1 standard deviation in levels of weight, height, and BMI approximately doubled the odds (range, 2.0 to 2.6) that a girl would experience menarche before age 12 y.
The reviewer should consider the degree to which the reference toxicant test result fell outside of control chart limits, the width of the limits, the direction of the deviation (toward increased test organism sensitivity or toward decreased test organism sensitivity), the test conditions of both the effluent test and the reference toxicant test, and the objective of the test.
In order to deviate from a "mandatory policy," the business unit prepared a letter explaining the reason for the deviation and recognizing the related risk.
It is a standardized difference score ( z score) using the expected value and standard deviation of the number of genes meeting the criterion on a GO term under a hypergeometric distribution.
Means of students' scores ± one standard deviation for each of the 16 stations were computed.