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You can consider the data to be of undetermined reliability when you conclude the following: On the basis of the information drawn from any additional work, as well as the preliminary assessment, (1) use of the data could lead to a incorrect or unintentional message and (2) the data have significant or potentially significant limitations, given the research question and the intended use.
But the NYT fails to report that yesterday a U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction against the fee prohibitions--a story off-leaded by the LAT (this same LAT story runs inside the Post in abbreviated form).
8.9 PRELIMINARY TOXICITY RANGE-FINDING TESTS
While resolution of these issues is likely to take some time, the preliminary results from ongoing reanalyses of some of the studies used in our Clear Skies analyses (Dominici et al, 2002; Schwartz and Zanobetti, 2002; Schwartz, personal communication 2002) suggest a more modest effect of the S-plus error than reported for the NMMAPS PM10 mortality study.
The preliminary spatial normalization method presented in this work will require further validation and development as the current method, by visual inspection, appears to be overfitting the cDNA data.