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Step 1: Late submissions |
Submissions received after the 23:59 of July 4, 2006 were not processed. A total of 295 submissions were kept as preliminary valid cases. |
Step 2: Unknown personal particulars |
2 cases without any personal particular were dropped, and the remaining 293 cases entered the next stage. |
Step 3: Doubtful leaflet codes |
2 cases with repeated leaflet codes were identified, only the last submission of each case was kept. 16 cases with invalid leaflet codes were dropped; another 15 cases with null leaflet codes were also dropped, leaving behind 260 valid cases. |
Step 4: Repetitive IP addresses |
25 skeptical cases with repetitive IP addresses were identified, they were examined in terms of their time-chop, nature of their outgoing website, and content of their submissions. Finally, 3 cases were confirmed to be repetitive and were eliminated from the dataset. The remaining 257 submissions comprised the final sample. |
Figure 1. Verification procedures for online submissions |