By comparing the many dozens of samples we collected, we can spot dating inconsistencies, detect the smallest of rings and identify common growth features within or among trees.
For some analyses, we excluded a small number of participants who had date inconsistencies that could not be resolved with available data (for example, a pregnancy home visit that occurred more than a year after the date of conception).
In a conference call with the student journalists, Robertson "presented incomplete answers, conflicting dates and inconsistencies in her responses," the students reported.
"Robertson presented incomplete answers, conflicting dates and inconsistencies in her responses" during a follow-up interview, the students wrote.
To date, this inconsistency has not been fully understood, owing to the lack of observation data, which is attributable to instrumental damage and electric outages as well as modeling uncertainties.
These errors resulted in two inconsistent medical record numbers, two incorrect test dates, and one inconsistency in height.
"Given Mitt Romney's secrecy about his returns," she said, "coupled with the revelations in just the one return we have seen to date and the inconsistencies between this one return and his other financial disclosures, he has forfeited the right to have us take him just at his word".
Others noticed inconsistencies in dates or striking similarities between spelling mistakes made by Kaycee and those made by Ms. Swenson on her own Weblog site.
Using previously described methods (21 ), we evaluated the quality of the surveillance data by assessing the amount of data cleaning required, the proportion of missing or incomplete values in line list fields, and inconsistencies in dates recorded for key points in AES disease progression and diagnosis.
