As the beta value is easier to interpret biologically, M values were reconverted to beta values when describing the results.
Project coordinators routinely reviewed the data sets for errors (eg, study identification number, date of visit, group assignment, inconsistent variables, biologically implausible values and missing values) using Stata V.11.2 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) syntaxes.
Observations that deviated from the within-hatch generation mean by more than three standard deviations were excluded from breeding value estimation and treated as outliers, but all biologically feasible values were retained for line comparison in the final generation.
The default settings in the software regarding cut-offs for out-of-range or biologically improbable values were used in the data analysis and all such values were recorded as missing data.
Only 53% of children had usable BMI-for-age percentile for assignment to a weight classification after 35 (3%) of children were excluded due to having a value below the 1st percentile.> -wrap-foot> BMI-for-age percentiles <1 were considered biologically implausible values and excluded from weight classification analyses.
Optimized rotation amplitudes and fundamental frequency agree within reason to biologically observed values with the largest discrepancy occurring in pitching amplitude.
Fig. 3 Continuation of codimension-two points associated with SNICs in the full (p_{ee})–(p_{ei}) plane, i.e. not limited to biologically relevant values.
In Eqs. 3 and 4, (y_i) and ({hat{y}}_{i}) are the measured and predicted biologically associated values for compound i, respectively, and (bar{y}) is the mean of all activities from the compounds in the data set.
We further investigated estimating α as a function of the predictor variables in the models (i.e., α0 + α1 x i ); however, no improvements in model fit or biologically meaningful values of α were noted.
Only one minimum centroid for each method was within the biologically feasible values.
