A spokeswoman for the child welfare agency said workers were still examining records for information on the case.
It examined records for children in seven big states — including New York, Texas and California — selected to be representative of the nation's Medicaid population, for the years 2001 and 2004.
In a paper published in the statistics magazine Chance, Dr. Wainer, along with Catherine Njue of the University of Manitoba and his stepson Samuel Palmer, an undergraduate at Princeton University, examined records for running and swimming over time.
To show how the money flowed, ProPublica interviewed people who worked on the spill and examined records for St. Bernard Parish, a coastal community about five miles southeast of downtown New Orleans.
At Humboldt and other universities, the security services and the police are seeking information for a new wave of what is known here as "profiling" -- looking for other potential terrorists by examining records for racial and national origin, travel movements and financial transactions.
He examined records for some other states through databases such as Archives.com.
∎ Error reports examining records for incompleteness and illogical entries are run on every record, and discrepancies are corrected (errors are rare since the introduction of "smart charts").
First, we examined records for solid waste facilities present in 2003 to determine whether they are disproportionately located in communities of color and in poor communities.
Our retrospective chart review examined records for all patients admitted to our ICU in 2008 and determined whether a CrCl greater than 20 ml/minute accurately predicted remaining dialysis-free 5 days later.
We endeavored to address these limitations through examining records for patients with other febrile illnesses, performing sensitivity analyses (e.g., a range of unit costs in both the public and private sectors) and using complementary data sources.
