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“a positive trend”

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p=0.09

Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

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two cancers whose rates are greater in area 2 than in either area 3 or area 4, and for which there are significant decreasing trends. The positive trend for buccal cavity and pharynx cancer could therefore have occurred by chance alone, but this explanation is less likely since there is also a positive trend in this cancer for males.
This was regarded as a statistical artefact because other possible reasons were ruled out, such as degradation of the matrix (which would result in a positive trend for all PBDEs, which was not the case) or dehalogenation of BDE209 (no decreasing trend was observed in the mass fraction of this congener).