In the latest census, in 1999, immigrants numbered 4.3m and made up some 7.4% of the population (overseas territories excluded), a proportion that France's national statistics office reckons has been more or less constant for a quarter of a century.
Thus in estimating the over-dispersion parameter we decided to exclude a proportion of the outlying hospitals.
This does not allow comparison with mild cases seen in a primary care setting, and will exclude a proportion of the population for whom referral or surgery is not an option.
Secondly, the large number of IHD deaths masks the pattern of amenable deaths from other causes, and thirdly, because we analysed individual level, not aggregate data, we could not exclude a proportion of deaths from one condition.
Because the sequential removal of occasional species excludes a different proportion of the overall abundance of each taxon, we also calculate the proportion of the total abundance and species richness that were depleted for each taxon.
By using a limited-coverage tolerance interval that excludes a small proportion of subjects, potentially diseased individuals are excluded from what is considered normal.
In other words, using 2500 g underestimates the burden of LBW and excludes a significant proportion (5.5 %) of newborns with LBW from receiving appropriate care in the study area.
Third, the sampling framework consisted of non-institutionalized persons only which excludes a certain proportion of older persons who live in senior care residences or assisted-living facilities and who, presumably, use public PCEC.
Several aspects of our analysis are expected to lessen the impact of this differential sampling frame; confining the age range to 20 64 years excludes a large proportion of those residing in medical and long-term care institutions.
It has been suggested that Fisher's exact test is too conservative and therefore excludes a large proportion of biologically interesting genes (Audic and Claverie, 1997; Romualdi et al. 2001).
Charging for entry would immediately exclude a vast proportion of our society.
