This method implied exclusion of 222 operated knees from the DKRR and 542 operated knees from the DNRP.
Whereas the control subjects were only screened for possible axis I-disorders (SCL-90-R) which implied exclusion of the study.
Primary osteoarthritis is usually selected in either epidemiological or therapeutic studies.This implies exclusions.
Yet separation does not imply exclusion; it does not mean making of the state and the public square a faith-free zone, as secularists and humanists seek to.
Consequently, even a small increase of the minimum sample size threshold implies the exclusion of many samples representing these two modes of subsistence, thereby removing the main interest of the analysis.
This probably implies the exclusion of people with severe disease.
As is generally acknowledged, the diagnosis of NCGS implies the exclusion of a diagnosis of CD on the basis of negative coeliac serology (tTG and EmA) and the absence of villous atrophy in the intestinal biopsy.
Additivity of rates implies exclusivity.
Note that this procedure implied the exclusion of temporary measures, whose cumulative effect is zero.
