In the first phase, a least-squares method is applied to estimate the span-output-weight on the basis of the fixed randomly generated initialized weight values.
The children of the experimental cohort were selected on the basis of attending randomly selected schools, whereas the external concurrent control schools were assigned by the regional Department of Education Office.
On the basis of the questionnaire we randomly allocated the 18 departments (200 participants), using a computer-generated random numbers table, to receive either physical exercise at the workplace or at home.
The trees were produced on the basis of 80% randomly chosen COGs, and the right tree was produced on the basis of 15%-jackknifing (the explanations in the text of [ 7]).
The Gold Standard was formed on the basis of 17 randomly taken GeneNet networks containing a total of 2,286 interactions between genes, proteins and metabolites.
Permutation tests allow to identify the probability to observe a difference of a certain size between 2 experimental conditions on the basis of the distribution obtained by randomly assigning the recorded data to the conditions.
This differs from the prior technique in that statistical comparisons are made on the basis of randomly assembled groups of genes that mirror the number of genes within each functional category in the community data set rather than sampling a fixed number of genes randomly and relying on chance to capture genes from a functional category of interest.
Because participants were recruited on the basis of randomly selected telephone numbers, respondents might not represent the general population in Hong Kong, despite weighting of the sample by age and sex.
Data were analyzed on the basis of randomly assigned groups, regardless of participants' subsequent medication (intention-to-treat analysis), and expressed as the mean ± SEM.
First, we applied a proportionate allocation strategy to sample two medicine specialties and three non-medical specialties, which were selected randomly on the basis of the discipline category-specialty sequence.
