OS and EC in collecting data and statistical analyses.
TL has been involved in drafting the manuscript, collecting data and statistical analyses.
The information was collected, and descriptive statistical analyses were performed with SPSS for Windows® Release 15.0 Standard Version (Chicago, IL, USA).
Patient data and baseline characteristics were retrospectively collected in a database, and statistical analyses were carried out by SPSS Statistics software (IBM, Armonk, New York, USA).
Factors affecting growth of young animals were examined in numerous studies relying on various experimental designs and statistical analyses of collected data.
MW: Principal investigator, collected data, statistical analyses and manuscript writing ANÅ: Main supervisor, statistical analyses, and manuscript writing IMSE: contributed to manuscript writing CMR and JKT: supervised data collection and have been involved in revising manuscript The study was part of the EU-funded project PROMISE-EBF (contract no INCO-CT 2004-003660, web ).
The collected data statistical analyses were done by STATA version 11 computer program.
MN participated in designing the study and writing the protocol, collected data, undertook statistical analyses and contributed to the final manuscript.
MK, VM and HT designed the study, collected data, performed statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript.
AE participated in the conception and design of the study, collected data, performed statistical analyses, and drafted the manuscript.
