Potential subjects with a baseline creatinine of greater than 1.1 mg/dL were excluded to eliminate subjects with underlying CKD, which would impact FGF-23 and PTH levels.
Consideration of the data quality on a case-by-case basis would let an investigator eliminate subjects from the analysis based on a pre-determined SNR or distortion criterion, to avoid negatively impacting sensitivity to BOLD changes or localization accuracy.
We made an (apparently successful) attempt to eliminate subjects whose phallometric data were relatively likely to be atypical for their group.
Mild sleep apnea (RDI < 15 apnea/hour) [ 2] and periodic limb movement disorder (PLMI < 25 limb movements/hour) [ 1] characterized the group despite clinical screening to eliminate subjects with these problems.
The upper limit of 100 mIU/ml was chosen to eliminate subjects who may have received unreported additional vaccine doses or had demonstrated a natural booster response following exposure to HBV.
In order to eliminate subjects whose phallometric data were relatively likely to be atypical for their group, we excluded men who completely denied any erotic interest in, or sexual experience with, persons resembling those to whom they responded most in the laboratory, and who furthermore had no known history of sexual offenses against such persons.
This included eliminating subjects who had studentized deleted residual values >3 or Cook's distance values >1 (Cook & Weisberg, 1982).
Not only were obvious false activations at high contrast cerebrospinal fluid tissue borders widely eliminated, subjects also displayed consistent activation in speech-related and motor areas.
We conducted this manual check twice by different annotators and eliminated subjects from the database whose ages and/or genders were annotated as incorrect ones in the first and/or the second check.
This program, another one in a series of "silver bullet" quick fixes, continued a long process of hollowing out (or eliminating) subjects like Art, Music, Physical Education, Geography, and Languages which educators had long identified as critical in the learning process.
