A previous history of stroke, TIA, MI, or coronary artery revascularisation procedure and comorbid diagnoses of coronary heart failure, IHD, and dialysis were recorded as either present or absent based on the presence of a recorded diagnostic codes.
In all four main tests - safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement - the prison was recorded as either insufficient or poor, the lowest rating.
Instead, such offences may be recorded as either 'missing motor vehicles' or 'taking conveyance without authority', which includes a broader range of behaviours than that which is covered by the definition of theft of motor vehicles used elsewhere (such as using a vehicle without the consent of the owner).
At the time of knee replacement, the macroscopic status of the ACL was recorded as either normal (where the ACL had normal appearance macroscopically, with no fibre disruption apparent), abnormal but present (where there were surviving ACL fibres without a normal appearance) or absent, on a standardised tick-box form by the operating surgeon who examined the ACL at the time of surgery.
Nuclear expression was recorded as either no expression, weak expression, or moderate/strong expression.
Dead wood such as logs and tree stumps were recorded as either present or absent from a median.
Anecdotal information about the spatial and temporal distributions of fishing effort, catches and lobster abundances throughout the archipelago were recorded as either "high", "moderate" or "low".
Where the IC value was outside the range of concentrations tested, it was recorded as either greater than the highest concentration used, or less than the lowest concentration, as appropriate.
All variables were recorded as either binary or categorical variables.
