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Early indications of future cognitive decline: stable versus declining controls.

PLoS One · 2013 · PMC3767625 · PMID 24040166

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approached significancep <0.05actually significant
In fact, in most cases, the MRI-only and PET-only models predicted MCI conversion with above-chance accuracy levels (65–70%), and this performance approached significance but simply failed to exceed the accepted p <0.05 cutoff.

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