The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2253/14/60/prepub We thank Hongying Shi, PH.D, Assistant professor, Department of preventive Medicine, Wenzhou medical university, for data analysis.
Investigators found that a former Novartis employee helped two university research teams with data analysis, though that person's link to the company was not disclosed in published papers.
Ethics approval was also obtained from Simon Fraser University for this secondary data analysis.
We also would like to thank Dr. Yuhua Cui (Michigan State University), Dr. Yuepeng Song (Beijing Forest University) and Yafei Lv (Beijing Forest University) for helpful suggestions for data analysis.
Both of the investigations found that a former Novartis employee helped the two universities' research teams with data analysis, though that person's link to the company was not disclosed in the papers.
We are also grateful to Dr. A. Ishimatsu, Nagasaki University, for valuable comments and Dr. Y. Tsuda, Nagasaki University, for technical support with data analysis.
We thank Dr. Feng-ming Hui at College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, for valuable suggestions of data analysis.
Special thanks go to Per-Erik Isberg, Department of Statistics, Lund University, Sweden, for advice on data analysis, and Andrei Chirokolava, David Chung and Barbara Grossman for editing this manuscript.
We also acknowledge Per-Erik Isberg, Department of Statistics, Lund University, Sweden for his advice on data analysis.
Special thanks go to the physiotherapists Karen Prip and Anette Klahr as well as Per-Erik Isberg, Department of Statistics, Lund University, Sweden for the advice on data analysis.
OLAP-GIS systems have been developed by university researchers and corporations, yet their potential for CHA data analysis is not well understood.
