We took variables to be analysed as potential predictors from the patients' entry forms completed before randomisation.
Therefore, using a binning procedure, each spectrum was transformed into 5000 variables, to be analysed by multivariate projection methods such as PCA and PLS-DA.
To this end, a working definition was used which was adapted to each context studied and from which the categories and variables to be analysed were selected.
Our choice of variables to be analysed with respect to their predictive value was based on the literature and clinical reasoning.
By pointing to the interactions among various variables to be analysed, SCT will guide the process of selecting instrument items and developing focus group interview schedules.
The variables to be analysed are: (1) joint angles and (2) net ankle moments in the sagittal and frontal planes; and (3) step length and (4) duration.
Consequently, an almost infinite number of interactions will have to be considered, and the numbers of factors and variables to be analysed in transcriptomics, metabolomics and other broad approaches are not smaller.
Therefore it leads to more accurate results, when independent variables are to be analysed at both the individual and the country level (for a detailed description of multilevel analysis see [ 87]).
Individual BLUP estimates were used instead of the actual published BLUP index of included horses, as the updated index includes corrections for individual performances and thereby variables which were to be analysed.
