However, because of technical difficulties in assessing correlation in circumstances when there is little variation, a modified procedure is adopted as follows [ 10].
At the end of the MDR future variation determination procedure, a defuzzification procedure involving a two-stage process was carried out.
Descriptive data and box plots show a tendency for a smaller variation in procedure time for the ADAPT cases, but this could not be confirmed statistically with the current data due to limitation of sample size.
To correct for variation associated with quantification of amplicon target (quantification variation), and downstream variation associated with target fragmentation, labeling, hybridization, washing, staining and scanning (microarray technical variation) a two-step normalization procedure was developed.
Although the hazard rate estimates display some instability due to random variation, a Kernel-like smoothing procedure [ 18] was adopted to aid the interpretation of the underlying pattern, and the smoothed curves were graphically represented.
Because the event-specific rates display some instability arising from random variation, a kernel-like smoothing procedure [ 20] was adopted to aid the reader in visualising the underlying pattern, and the smoothed curves were represented graphically.
Since the hazard rate estimates display some instability due to random variation, a Kernel-like smoothing procedure was adopted and the smoothed curve was graphically represented to make it easier for the reader to perceive the underlying pattern [ 14].
This procedure continued to select participants using a maximum variation sampling procedure [ 60] to ensure that characteristics identified as variables of interest in the quantitative phase (gender, type of dialysis unit [in-center, satellite and home therapies], work location [metropolitan, regional, rural and remote] and length of time working in haemodialysis) were included.
A variation of the procedure involves the use of a matrix (matrix autologous chondrocyte implantation (M-ACI)).
Dissection then proceeds usually from the back, except where findings dictate a variation in the procedure.
