Two database holders A and B with data sets DB a and DB b, a semi-trusted third party C and the recipient D of the merged data set participate in the protocol.
In addition, the following criteria were required for a herd to be included in the dataset: age at first calving between 19 and 36 months for a cow to be included in the data set, participating herds with at least 30 first calvings in a given year of the collection period, and active participation in disease recording [ 12].
DYLY and DKS acquired the array data sets, participated in the design, performed microarray analysis and drafted the manuscript.
YG provided the raw data sets, participated in discussions on methodology and analysis results, and drafting of the manuscript.
Still, the robustness of associations observed in current study to adjustment for other breast cancer risk factors, including BMI to address the possibility of tracking in more detail, will be examined in a subsequent study, in a subset of women from the current data set who participated in Danish Diet, Cancer and Health cohort [ 45].
Students collected a research-quality data set while participating in the practicum's teaching models, and subsequent to the cruise presented their results as oral papers at research conferences and as research papers.
AB prepared the data set, and JZ participated in the design and analyses.
Thus, the cluster members, except collecting the input data sets, neither participate in the data processing procedure nor contribute to the procedure of analysis and decision.
The values of weights in such linear combination were estimated from the total data set of all participating countries that includes 17,761 records by the SPSS Factor Analysis procedure requesting a single factor, and then calculating and saving that single factor (FTI) for each record [ 25].
