The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/12/210/prepub We thank Dr. Yukichiro Minami and Dr. Naoki Minami for their data collection contributions.
The data collection included contributions of stakeholders from public and private sector, as well as academia and civil society.
This approach was successfully adopted in the case of Weather-it missions; weather experts were recruited from weather and science engagement organisations, joined the nQuire-it platform, and evaluated the content, methods of data collection, and contributions provided by less expert members.
UM provided consultation in experimental design and analysis, assisted in data collection, and contributions to the final draft.
However: typically the computed portion of a study comes after data collection, so its contribution to wrongness may easily be independent of sample size, replication of earlier steps, and other techniques for improving significance.
LM prepared and translated the data collection tools with contributions from MDA and MN.
Moreover, successful model development requires substantial experimental data collection and strategic contributions from a variety of functional experts (e.g., pharmacology, biology, clinical research, biostatistics, mathematics).
