These videos were then categorized as valid emotional samples or not, based on an agreement score of at least 90%% of the expected values shown in Table 1.
Alarms were categorized: valid/not valid, relevant/not relevant and medical reaction yes/no.
Note: 61 out of 540 participants with valid cotinine assays were categorized as tobacco users (11.5%), but only those with self-report data are included in this report (N= 532).
All requisitions with numeric and alphanumeric (but valid) results were also categorized according to reference limits at the time of the analysis as either normal, below, or above reference range in separate variables (Table 2).
Further, outcome measures were categorized into three types: 1) reliable and valid outcome measure, 2) reliable, but not valid outcome measure, and 3) neither reliable, nor valid outcome measure.
According to the FDA guidance for pharmaceutical companies on pharmacogenomic data, biomarkers must be categorized into three classes: (1) exploratory biomarkers, (2) probable valid biomarkers, and (3) known valid biomarkers [ 20].
For example, if the human microsatellite is included in a coding region, the locus was categorized as coding and we assumed that this categorization was, for the most part, valid across the phylogeny.
Exclusive rights are only valid for a certain period of time and are not categorized as absolute – states retain the power to override these rights – a clear departure from the natural rights tradition (Sterckx [2005a]).
We categorized booklet use based on the interviews as we considered these answers most valid because in the interviews we were able to explore in more detail how patients used the booklet.
C-statistics were calculated for the ability of each form of ISS to distinguish NTDB patients with valid ICD-10-CM diagnoses (after excluding cases that could not be categorized) who would subsequently die or not die in the hospital.
The outcome variable was insurance status categorized as 1 if a respondent was registered into the NHIS and had a valid card and 0 otherwise.
