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Step 1: Late submissions |
Submissions received after the 23:59 of July 4, 2007 were not processed. A total of 404 submissions were kept as preliminary valid cases.
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Step 2: Unknown personal particulars |
2 cases without any personal particular were dropped, and the remaining 402 cases entered the next stage.
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Step 3: Doubtful leaflet codes |
5 cases with repeated leaflet codes were identified, only the last submission of each case was kept. 14 cases with invalid leaflet codes were dropped; another 21 cases with null leaflet codes were also dropped, leaving behind 362 valid cases.
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Step 4: Repetitive IP addresses |
37 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, 0 case was confirmed to be repetitive and was eliminated from the dataset. The remaining 362 submissions comprised the final sample.
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Figure 1. Verification procedures for online submissions |