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Acknowledgments 



Free R-software has been used for this work and the 

 authors would like to thank the R development core 

 team and all contributors to the R project (http://www. 

 R-project.org). We also thank Colm Lordan and two 

 anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. 



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