"While we're waiting, I'd say they need more head-to-head comparison data, including laropiprant versus placebo, " says Taylor.

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Therein may be the undisclosed statistical comparison of greater impact than the poll-computer data points.

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By comparison, in dealing with the vast realms of low-content data, just about the only way to cost-effectively refine down to the good stuff will be through high-powered data compression.

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If you go back to 2005 data, a more expansive ILO regional comparison shows South Korea out of synch with Asia-Pacific, except for also- notoriously strike-prone India.

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