An admitting nurse at a Northern California hospital insisted: "The true number for meth addicts is in the single digits.
Hapler's estimate of the number of crossover points trends between one and two above the true number for its own and the majority vote consensus.
Even trebling for the true numbers of victims, that still leaves over a thousand girls who went voluntarily – and Joan Bakewell has acknowledged there were many of those.
For the high diversity dataset (Supplementary Figure 3, Additional File 1), the true number of crossovers for Hapler only increases by approximately one, whereas the number for the majority vote suffers significantly incurring over 10 crossovers on average.
In the simulations, five thousand offspring is then split among the true number of fathers for a given simulation scenario (e.g. for the 3 father simulation with equal reproductive contribution, each would be assigned 1666 offspring).
Samura, a television journalist originally from Sierra Leone, said the Liberian authorities appeared to be deliberately downplaying the true number of cases, for fear of increasing alarm in the west African country.
The true number of subtypes for each of the subgroups is currently unknown, but it is likely more than one subtype for each subgroup.
Among exogenous variables, the length of the last living-in relationship was found to influence the estimated true number of partner for all the questions analyzed.
Covariance structure analysis [ 14- 16] was used to explore the relationship between reported and estimated true number of partners for the varying length of the past covered by the questions on the number of partners.
The measurement model is given by the first four equations, while the last four describe the relationship between the instrumental variables and the true number of partners for the periods specified.
Therefore Sambalpur had no record of the true number of suspect cases for which validation was pending.
