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Patients with identical DNA pattern strains were considered clustered.
Patients with genetically related M. tuberculosis strains were considered clustered.
Thus, 25 of the 36 isolates with low IS6110 copies were considered clustered.
If M. tuberculosis isolates had identical IS6110 band patterns, they were considered clustered.
On the basis of the results, 18 of the 26 H strains were considered clustered.
However, identical IS6110 patterns with less than six bands were not considered clustered, unless secondary DNA analysis confirmed a match, as noted in the results.
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The previous study of spatial variation only considered clustering (6).
It also would have been helpful if the authors considered clustering effects in their models.
We also considered clustering by socioeconomic status by including an additional random effect for ZIP code.
Consider clustered matched-pair studies for non-inferiority where clusters are independent but units in a cluster are correlated.
We consider clustered wireless networks, where transceivers in a cluster use a time-slotted mechanism (TDMA) to access a wireless channel that is shared among several clusters.
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