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7% of the genes had an adjusted R-squared statistic over 0.7, showing that most of the genes had first-order mRNA degradation rates.
Similarly, multivariate logistic regression can be used to predict group membership (stroke vs. control) based on age, sex, environmental risk factors that appear significant in univariate analyses, and genotype(s), with first-order interaction terms of genotype with environment and gene 1 with gene 2.
Though Shultz elevated the status and visibility of counterterrorism coordination by appointing as coordinator first L. Paul Bremer and then Robert Oakley, both senior career ambassadors of high standing in the Foreign Service, the department continued to be dominated by regional bureaus for which terrorism was not a first-order concern.
The adjusted R-squared statistic, which is a measure of correlation between the observed data values and the predicted values from the linear model, shows how well a first-order kinetics model would describe the mRNA degradation rates.
Our experience, however, has been that the first-order corrections are sufficient and the higher-order corrections are more difficult to compute and make little difference in the final analysis.