Adverse events (number of patients and number of events) were categorized by association with treatment, study withdrawal, death, severity, intensity, system organ class, and preferred term.
Under the cellular component category, large numbers of UniGenes were categorized as cell and organelle.
According to the surgeons' subjective assessment during exam under anesthesia, similar numbers of fistulae were categorized as simple (372/1312, 28.4%) or complex (376/1312, 28.7%).
The number of pregnancies and the number of births were categorized as none, one, two, three, and four or more.
For the above calculations, the numbers representing the judgments were categorized as very low, low, middle, high, and very high, similar to five-point Likert scales, using cutoff points of ?6, ?2, 2, and 6.
The mean number of statements which were categorized as 'very important' was calculated for every age group.
The number of SNPs that were categorized to each of the 12 candidate obesity genes are also shown.
The number of elicited responses were categorized by concept and reviewed across patients for each focus group.
A large number of interesting responses were categorized under "others" (33%, n = 46) including 'vascular spasm', 'dullness of senses', 'brain cancers', and 'to get rid of old memories'.
The ASI results were reported as number of days and were categorized into "no, none" or "yes, 1 or more days" because of the participants' infrequent regular use and the distributional properties of their responses [ 26].
