The methods were found to be accurate to within a few millimeters when measuring 58 mm of diametric difference over an 18.3 m diameter circular profile, even when some sections of the data were removed from the analysis.
All locations having gaps and missing data were removed from the data set using the complete-deletion option.
Our results showed that the performance decreases gradually as progressively larger amounts of data were removed from the training set.
Finally, schools fewer than five students were removed from the analysis sample (only one in Japan and none in the other three countries) and schools with missing teacher instructional practice data were removed from the analysis samples (23 schools in the U.S., no schools in Korea, one school in Japan, and two schools in Singapore).
Therefore, these data were removed from our study.
In this way, query data were removed from the prediction process.
Personal data were removed from all material related to the study to protect the anonymity of the patients.
Technical problems prevented accurate determination of the concentration of the cytokines in 10 samples, and these data were removed from further analyses.
In these circumstances, data were removed from the analysis from the time at which the collar was last known to be still attached.
Sequences with missing data were removed from the database by manual inspection using MEGA4 v4.1, and redundant sequences were removed using the NRDB program (http://pubmlst.org/perl/mlstanalyse/mlstanalyse.pl?site=pubmlst&page=nrdb&referer=pubmlst.org).org
Since a large portion of trnH-psbA sequences was missing data at one or both ends, the alignment was trimmed and 11 taxa with missing trnH-psbA data were removed from the BLAST analysis; the rbcL alignment did not require trimming, but three taxa with missing rbcL data were also removed (Supporting Information Table S2).
