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Clinical response at week 8 will also be associated with initial (week 4) response to give an indication of the duration of response and to report any recurrences.

This example details a number of analyses. Some of the repetition could be reduced by replacing ‘adjustment for imbalance in the baseline’ by ‘adjustment for baseline’. Although this is very trivial example, if the number of words can be reduced without loss of clarity, then this reduces the eventual size of the document, facilitates the proof reading, and eases the job of the approving authorities.