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In addition, phylogenetic analyses were conducted with maximum likelihood (JTT-F option) [ 31 ] and maximum parsimony (Max-Mini Branch & Bound option) [ 29 ] on combined data sets; in all cases they resulted in similar results (topology and significance) to the neighbor-joining analyses.
The use of hospital controls might introduce bias, due to the possibility that some controls were suffering from conditions that would make them more likely to use aspirin . However, greater likelihood of aspirin use in the control group would only have attenuated the true risk estimate, rather than produced spurious associations.
historians, Greenblatt scolded, know that the sonnet, like 125 others, was in all likelihood written to a young man.
[This assertion, unlike the others, has some merit, and it's possible the two arrived at the phrase independent of one another; but given the other examples cited here, that likelihood is not great.]
The plan, Thompson explained, "enhances the likelihood of the lawyer having to look over his shoulder."