The individuals in the sample were informed that the information regarding sex, age, geographical area, education level, occupation and native country obtained from the Swedish official registries would be linked to their answers if they responded to the interview.
All sub-samples were informed in writing, according to the regulations laid down by the Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics in Health Region North (REC North) for this specific project, and return of the CORE-OM form was accepted as consent to participate in the project.
Parents of the children whose case notes had been sampled were informed about the study and provided an opportunity to opt out.
The individuals in the sample were informed that completed questionnaires would be linked to the Swedish official registries through personal identification numbers, in order to access registry information on gender, age, geographic area, educational level and country of birth.
The individuals in the sample were informed through the covering letter that sex, age, geographical area, education level, occupation, and native country would be linked to their answers from the Swedish official registries if they responded to the questionnaire.
By using the learned mapping from the silhouette manifold to the pose manifold, particle sampling is informed by the current image observation, resulting in improved sample efficiency.
Parameters for the sample size were informed by data from the pilot study, known only to the study statisticians and DMEC.
All the individuals included in the sample bank were informed by members of the research team about the aims and ethical guidelines of the project and signed an informed consent form before the sampling procedure, conducted by mouth scrap.
The women who were willing to donate a blood sample for research were informed that the sample in the future could be used for research.
