This abstraction--the ability to take away or remove characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of essential characteristics--is what presents an opportunity for creative solutions.
Bennett only recovered pterosaurs as close relatives of the protorosaurs after removing characteristics of the hind limb from his analysis, in an attempt to test the idea that these characters are the result of convergent evolution between pterosaurs and dinosaurs.
Retaining all pest treatment variables, we removed sequentially the demographic/household characteristics or agricultural density variable with the highest p-value until all remaining covariates had p-values <0.1.
We removed a variety of reads with characteristics that could interfere with assembly prior to further analyses.
This removes characteristic instrumental differences and standardizes the comparison with model data.
We removed duplicate publications.
Following Wunderlich and Mirny (2006), we consider the predictions of any method on the later 2 genes as always correct to compute the accuracy of the prediction, while we remove them to compute receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves.
We then removed the GP characteristics according to a backward stepwise strategy, with a threshold of 5%, to obtain the final model.
