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. 2012 Mar 26;12:79. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-79

Table 2.

The distribution of area (continent) and economic status in 130 countries, in training and validation sets

Training Set
(N = 65)
Validation Set
(N = 65)
Entire Set
(N = 130)
Continent
 Africa 26 (40.0) 18 (27.7) 44 (33·8)
 Americas 3 (4.6) 1 (1.5) 4 (3.2)
 Asia 7 (10.8) 5 (7.7) 12 (9.2)
 Australia/Oceania 2 (3.1) 5 (7.7) 7 (5.4)
 Europe 20 (30.7) 24 (36.9) 44 (33.8)
 Middle East 7 (10.8) 12 (18.5) 19 (14.6)
Member of OECD
 No 50 (76.9) 50 (76.9) 100 (76.9)
 Yes 15 (23.1) 15 (23.1) 30 (23.1)
Economics
 Low income 17 (26.1) 20 (30.8) 37 (28.4)
 Middle income 28 (43.1) 25 (38.4) 53 (40.8)
 High income 20 (30.8) 20 (30.8) 40 (30.8)

OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development