Often, specific information (such as shipment location) exists, but it may be contained in proprietary systems, which do not conform to data exchange standards.
But there are few incentives to conform to data-recording standards that would make sharing easier.
Once data in clinical trials pertinent to DILI analysis have been collected, there is a requirement to ensure that they are complete, accurately tabulated and conform to acceptable data standards.
FoodNet databases at the sites and CDC are increasingly conforming to national data standards, which will facilitate linking to meaningful use of certified electronic health records technology.
Ensuring that your data conform to established standards will help ensure the utility of your data set to other researchers.
So one way of reading the court's verdict is as a way of making a US company, whose business model depends, ultimately, on exploiting its users' personal data, conform to European standards.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, some databases require data providers to conform to strict standards with respect to input format and content.
All boxes designed for numerical data and spacing must conform to DataFax standards.
The data collection, storage and access rights will conform to the standards set out in the Data Protection Act 1998.
The different hospital databases have not been designed to conform to some agreed standards for data representation and meanings.
In both cases, we assumed that the target power of the tests with the sampled data should conform to the standard of 0.8 (i.e. a 20% probability of a type II error) and that tests will be conduced to evaluate one-sided hypotheses (either of a difference in species richness <0, i.e. a loss of species over time evaluated by a paired t test, or of a correlation coefficient >0).
