Interventions were categorized to being either drug, biological or vaccine versus other interventions.
For those, a medicine was categorized to be available if it was available in either pharmacy or medicine storage room.
For the remaining 3 species, i.e. pig, canine, and rabbit, we could not find sufficient evidence to categorize them to either class (Wells et al. 2003; Vorberg et al. 2003; Lysek et al. 2005).
Infants previously categorized as unexposed had the lowest mean value of ECAT when compared with infants previously categorized as exposed to either moving or stop-and-go traffic.
Surprisingly, we found that in about 25% of the cases, we could not categorize the phenotype to either Bristol-like or Hawaii-like behavior.
Carcinogenic mixtures are categorized according to either the carcinogenicity of the mixture or the classification of the carcinogenic substances included.
For other anthropometric measures, such as height and BMI change, subjects were categorized according to either the tertile or quartile distributions of the controls.
Psychological distress was categorized as either low to mild (K10 < 19) or moderate to severe (K10 = 20 to 40), Contact was dichotomised into high contact (score > 6) versus low contact (score < 7) and Depression Literacy was dichotomised into pass (>10) and fail (<11).
Individual allotetraploid reads were then compared to the diploid consensus sequences so that they could be categorized as either belonging to the A- or D-genome.
Based on previous evaluations they were expected to be categorized as either "reliable with restrictions" or "not reliable," the two categories which are often the most difficult to assign, and which distinguish between inclusion and exclusion of studies in a hazard or risk assessment.
