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One might try an a priori accounting of the sources of error and thereby provide a parametric model for it, but the number of potential error sources is large, so we instead choose a flexible error model and estimate local variance by again using local regression.
However, since testing of sera for HCV antibodies for the members of the family was done without knowledge of which sera belonged to which family, and since clustering of HCV infections was observed within families independent of the participation in the treatment campaigns, it is unlikely that the clustering of the individuals' participation in the treatment campaigns were solely due to biased reporting since there is an a priori reason to believe that such clustering is possible on the basis of the manner in which the campaigns were conducted.
Catholic bashing is OK since it is, a priori , art.
In many validation studies, clustering methods are evaluated on their performance on empirical datasets with a priori known cluster labels [ 25] or, more commonly, on simulation studies where true cluster labels are known.
There were no a priori known classes for this dataset, but the analysis of Bittner et al.