Example sentences for: misclassification

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  • Although this reproducibility is somewhat lower than in other studies, a non-differential misclassification of menarcheal age would have resulted in an underestimation of the actual associations.

  • The most important limitation of the current study may be the use of self-reported menarcheal age, and the misclassification associated with this recall over several decades may explain the negative findings that have been reported [ 11 ] . Over shorter (<10 years) periods, however, correlations between the first report of menarcheal age (obtained close to the time of menarche) and a subsequent report have generally been high [ 38 ] , with 60% of girls accurately recalling the month and year of menarche [ 39 ] . Among the 1014 girls in the current study who participated in more than one examination after menarche, 73% of the recalled ages (at the first and second reports) differed by one year or less, and only 5% differed by more than two years.

  • Exposure misclassification may also have affected our results, as we based our analyses on self-reported analgesic use and were not able to independently verify this information.

  • We performed a leave-one-out cross validation analysis to estimate the misclassification rate.

  • Zygosity for each pair was determined by analysis of 20 polymorphic loci, such that the probability of misclassification as monozygous was less than 0.001 [24].


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