Thus, although selfhood and individuality are pragmatically useful and possess powerful heuristic appeal, they remain imprecise categories.
There were enough exceptions to the rule to make these categories imprecise.
For example, an international study from 2000 onwards has shown that out of 83 countries having cause-of-death registration, only 20 countries had high-quality death registration data that could be used for estimating injury mortality, because elsewhere, injury deaths were frequently classified using imprecise, partially specified categories (Bhalla et al. 2010).
An increased risk with imprecise estimates for the category of all lymphatic and haematopoietic tissue neoplasms is observed in occupational and residential mortality analysis.
Most of the gifted children in this study, who displayed distributed behavioural profiles, could belong to this still imprecise but symptomatically significant categories.
Variables with a large proportion of missing values (e.g., pigs kept outside 24 h a day versus only part of the day, composition of wild boar group, wild boar sex and age category) or with imprecise records (e.g., seasonal occurrence and day time of different contact categories) were also excluded from the models.
However, this difference between hazard of death for men and women must be interpreted with caution in our study, because there are few observations in some categories, (e.g., only 3 women in the "Very good" SRH category had died) generating imprecise estimates (model 4, Table 2).
However, our findings might also be artefactual, since the definition of the three categories of studies was imprecise and there were few studies.
In the older participants, the ORs were elevated in each of the second through fifth quintiles, but the estimates were imprecise, with wide CIs, because the referent category (first quintile) comprised only five individuals.
Frequently, geneticists describe "populations" for which their results apply, but this term can be ambiguous and imprecise and often refers to current social categories of race and ethnicity, which are not genetically distinct.
