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Last fall, both the Washington Post and the Bergen Record ran front-page stories asserting that pro-choice groups underestimate the number of "intact dilation and extraction" (IDE) procedures, to use the medical term, that are performed.
This new source of error now combines with the original underestimate to produce a probability density for the total number of cases in the state.
Andrews et al . [ 16] suggested that the number of genes in Drosophila might be a severe underestimate, based on 7,297 testes EST sequences they generated and aligned to the annotated genome.
As discussed in HEI materials provided to sponsors and to the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (Greenbaum, 2002a, 2002b), these investigators found problems in the default "convergence criteria" used in Generalized Additive Models (GAM) and a separate issue first identified by Canadian investigators about the potential to underestimate standard errors in the same statistical package.
Thus, our analysis almost certainly represents an underestimate of the total transposable element content of the WGS3 heterochromatic scaffolds.