"We don't want this technology to be used as a method of gender selection," said the company's executive vice president, Terry Carmichael.
He seems to be worried that a quest for human perfection will inspire prospective parents to use abortion as a method of prenatal selection in the event a defective fetus is discovered.
Though a representative of the company that makes the test declared that "we don't want this technology to be used as a method of gender selection," it's hard to see how that can be prevented.
Whilst stepwise deletion has been criticised in the literature [ 67], a recent study using real ecological data validated stepwise deletion as a method of model selection and concluded that it performed just as well as other methods of producing predictive models [ 68].
Not all social and political philosophers in the Song period blamed the examination system as the root of the problem (but merely as a method of recruitment and selection), emphasizing instead the gentry's failure to take responsibility in society as the cultural elite.
If the initial person is not available, the person with the next birthday is selected (as an unbiased method of selection).
As a result of the method of selection of subjects from the BCFR, all sister controls had a family history of breast cancer, and a family history of breast cancer was reported by 48% of the cases and 23% of unrelated controls.
Teshima and Innan [ 7] propose scanning for this specific pattern as a method of identifying such regions undergoing selection.
Bacteria-containing phagosomes were prepared using a method of magnetic selection as described by Lönnbro et al. [26].
Currently, targeted selective treatments (TST), where anthelmintic treatments are given to selected individuals within a herd, are promoted as a method of maintaining animal performance whilst reducing the selection of anthelmintic resistant nematodes [ 2].
That is, as a method of Granger graphical modeling, the relevant variable selection question is not whether an individual lagged variable is to be included in regression, but whether the lagged variables for a given time series as a group (i.e. the feature), are to be included.
