LBCA gene set was determined using an empirical parsimony procedure based on COG phyletic patterns (See Additional file 1: "Reconstruction of the gene set of the Last Bacterial Common Ancestor") which assigned a COG to LBCA if it was present in several diverse bacterial clades.
Infection parameters describing the transmission potential and the duration of the stages of the disease are obtained through a maximum likelihood procedure based on the empirical data of the H1N1 international seeding events (see Figure 1A).
To protect against the effects of possible deviations from either normality or selection on the trait, the HQTDT implemented in the QTDT program can carry out a permutation procedure based on permutation of genotypes to produce an empirical P-value.
The nonlinear system identification procedure, based on a NARX representation and GP, is applied to empirical case study of an experimental ball-and-tube system.
Moreover it would be important to check the robustness of the fitting procedure based on negative binomial distributions and to test other possible functional forms that can fit the empirical distribution.
To date, the current design philosophy for the prediction of motions and wave-induced loads has been driven by empirical or first-principles calculation procedures based on well-proven applications such as ship motion prediction programs.
To address long-term deflections due to creep and shrinkage, available codes and guidelines for FRP RC structures, such as ACI 440.1R-06 and CSA-S806-02, proposimplifiedied procedures based on empirical multiplicative coefficients.
We also addressed the ad hoc model evaluation and checking procedures based on empirical information for these types of studies.
The empirical procedure was performed based on the manufacturer's instructions.
The evaluation of the performance of the WSRT procedure was empirical and based on cancer incidence data from Minnesota.
