Sixth, excluding the inconsistent subjects could be a limitation because of unequal characteristics between the consistent and inconsistent groups.
To assess the impact of this, we performed a sensitivity analysis excluding such inconsistent responses, and again, a greater percentage chose 5-day outcomes as "most important" (data not shown).
Two hospitals were excluded given inconsistent data submission and one hospital removed their data prior to our study.
Chung et al. [ 71], Li et al. [ 77], and Pecchia et al. [ 81] excluded the inconsistent participants from their analyses.
This is because mycolic acid synthesis mainly occurs in growing TB bacteria and inhibition by PZA of HadC responsible for mycolic acid elongation, while cannot be excluded, is inconsistent with the unique activity of PZA for non-growing persisters.
To assess the influence of inconsistent responses, we repeated all analyses excluding women with inconsistent responses, finding the same results as presented here.
All analyses excluding women with inconsistent responses were repeated yielding substantially the same results as presented below.
Nevertheless, analyses were repeated after excluding women with inconsistent data, and while there was a loss in precision as expected, study conclusions did not change.
In contrast to any-stage models, only marginal improvement could potentially be gained by excluding variables with inconsistent association with stage III and IV endometriosis across the data from phases I and II; this relative consistency in association across phases provided further evidence of the superior predictability of stage III and IV endometriosis over "any stage" disease.
Open circuit chamber measurements had high repeatability (i.e., 0.88) and, excluding one sheep with inconsistent eating patterns, the correlation (r) between 1 h portable static chamber measurements and average emissions in the open circuit chambers was 0.71.
