They received thousands of calls, with many duplicate reports.
I did some relatively simple cleaning of the data (to exclude, for example, incomplete and duplicate reports), geolocated the listings, and arranged them on a map.
A precise count of failed implants reported to the F.D.A. is hard to come by because of the agency's overlapping reporting system, though The Times sought to eliminate duplicate reports about the same incident.
In an effort to improve the quality of the Iraqi data, American officials are trying to help the Iraqis ferret out duplicate reports and develop an automated database of their own, no small challenges as the Iraqis have long depended more on paper records than computers.
That is several thousand more than the newest United Nations count of almost 93,000 by the end of April, a number distilled from a pool of 263,055 reported killings by researchers who eliminated those lacking detail and crosschecked to remove duplicate reports.
Duplicate reports were excluded.
When we found duplicate reports of the same study in preliminary abstracts and articles, we analyzed data from the most complete data set.
Duplicate reports of the same solution - when several reports of the proposed solution exist in different papers the most complete version of the study was included in the review.
(Reporting by Corrie MacLaggan, Somee Olafson and Tim Gaynor; Writing by couldia Johnston; Editing be Greg McCune).
UCLA said it promptly reported scope-related cases to the FDA but the agency asked for duplicate reports through a separate system.
From these systematic reviews, data for 1 012 trials were retrieved; 143 duplicate reports and reports of 129 nonrandomised trials were excluded.
