
Read about the meaning of "Bad initial values", "Interrupted", "Not converged", "Ambiguous", "Hit constraint", "Don't fit", "Too few points", "Perfect fit", "Impossible weights", and "Equation not defined". Are your results free of error messages? Prism sometimes puts a short message at the top of the table of results.If your goal is to determine the values of the best-fit parameters or to compare models, answer the three questions below before looking at parameter values, R2, etc.

If your goal is to interpolate unknowns from a standard curve, skip this page and go right to this analysis checklist. Readers: click on the link to go directly to a survey in which you can provide feedback to Annals on this particular article.When evaluating nonlinear regression results, first consider what your goal is. RPC takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Īll authors attest to meeting the four authorship criteria: (1) Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work AND (2) Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content AND (3) Final approval of the version to be published AND (4) Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.įunding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article as per ICMJE conflict of interest guidelines (see This project was funded in whole or in part by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority under contract HHSO100201500016C. RPC drafted the article, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. RPC and JL provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. RPC, JL, AD, PH, DM, SR, and KM-B managed the data, including quality control. KM-B and JR undertook recruitment of participating centers and patients at risk.

All authors supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection. Burstein, MDĪuthor contributions: RPC, JL, and HM conceived the study, designed the trial, and obtained research funding.

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