These are independent risk factors for mortality, heart disease, and some cancers.
If this recovers to 2007 levels of around 16% gradually during the forecast period, this would add over 10% to our price estimate independent of other factors.
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However, an analysis of the lives of 5, 000 women born in Britain in March 1958 suggests that short women have larger families than tall ones, an effect that is independent of such factors as the tendency of people from poor families to be shorter than those from rich ones.
The IV approach these critics seek, by treating these factors as independent when they are in fact intertwined, introduces bias into the UVa findings, rather than removing it.
In addition to smoking, each of the other risk factors makes an independent contribution to improving prediction.
The goal here is to look the significant factors that may be independent of specific individuals that help the organization itself to grow.
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These factors put significant pressure on local independent bookstores because they typically sold fewer books at higher prices.
Although the heart disease-inflammation link is promising, there is still controversy over whether heart inflammation is truly independent of other, more established cardiovascular risk factors, such as cholesterol or smoking, O'Donnell says.
Moreover, the independent movement of global markets, which react to factors such as different domestic monetary and fiscal policy cycles, has historically provided considerable diversification benefits when held in combination with US investments (though correlations tend to converge on 1 in periods of financial crisis).
This certainly does not prove that economic growth is independent of tax rates, but it does suggest that other factors are far more important.
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One of the mitigating factors in Europe was a less dramatic result than expected from an independent audit of Spain's struggling banking sector, said Philippe Gijsels, head of research at BNP Paribas Fortis Global Markets.
Centre for Economic Policy Research academics, led by David Begg, have suggested that the pact should be made less rigid, with an independent body of experts deciding whether a country's deficit was due to recession or structural factors such as overspending on the pensions system.
After stripping out known risk factors such as smoking, diabetes and cholesterol, a pattern between body shape and clot risk emerged, independent of body weight alone.
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