The difficulty arises, however, from the suggestion that on the new instrumental interpretation, republicanism for all intents and purposes collapses into liberalism (Herzog 1986; Haakonssen 1993; Patten 1996).
Although the neural network is tailored to discriminate the full 61 TIMIT phones, these symbols are sometimes considered a too narrow description for practical use, and for evaluation purposes we collapsed the 61 TIMIT labels into the standard 39 phones as proposed by Lee and Hon[31].
For analytical purposes, we collapsed the gradations of understanding into a binary variable (strongly agree/agree vs. neither agree nor disagree/disagree/strongly disagree).
For analytical purposes, we collapsed the categories to produce nine ethnic subgroups: White British, White other (predominantly Irish and European), Black Caribbean (including Black other, mixed White and Black Caribbean groups), Black African, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi.
The purpose of collapsing these predictors was to obtain one single estimate of the total effect of all somatic diseases.
For this purpose, sequences were collapsed into sequence type numbers (Technical Appendix Table 1).
For analytic purposes, these were collapsed into two categories: pharmaceutical versus other.
Treatment episodes were constructed at the level of each biologic agent, but for reporting purposes, exposure was collapsed into one of four groups: tocilizumab, abatacept, rituximab, and all anti-TNFα agents in aggregate.
