Germany remained in the category 3 - together with France, Croatia, Kosovo, United Kingdom, Spain, and Poland, whereas meanwhile three countries (Hungary, Israel, and Ireland) had been categorized in stage 4, and three other countries (Greece, Italy and Malta) in category 5 [ 11].
In scenario B, the episodes were categorized in two other ways.
We also preserved the continuous nature of predictors included in the prognostic model whereas they were categorized in the other models with a relatively arbitrary cutoff value (13, 14, 18– 20, 30).
Patients who did not meet criteria for either the MET or the LA population were considered to have early stage disease and were categorized in the "all other" cohort.
The primary diagnosis was considered the reason for the THA and was categorized in "osteoarthritis (OA)" and "other reasons".
The DUF623 domain of the CaOVATE was categorized in the same subfamily as other Solanaceous plants and the DUF623 domains of AtOFP7, AtOFP8 and AtOFP6.
AtOFP1 is categorized in another subfamily along with other well characterized proteins such as AtOFP2, AtOFP3, AtOFP5 and an OVATE-like protein from rice.
Other metabolites were categorized in three classes (< 25th percentile, 25th 74th percentile, ≥ 75th percentile) and were also modeled as ordinal variables coded using integer values (0, 1, 2) to perform trend tests.
Although the types of development finance provided by China are not entirely comparable to that given by traditional donors [ 22], CAAD projects were categorized in a way to increase comparability to other international aid repositories [ 20].
This means that animals with different rates of fat tissue infiltration, due to age-related involution or other factors, could be categorized in treated or untreated group on the basis of the C/M value.
