In this task, you are given a sentence from the research paper and your task is to classify the given sentence into the following categories: Background (Why is this problem important? What relevant works have been created before? What is still missing in the previous works? What are the high-level research questions? How might this help other research or researchers?), Purpose (What specific things do the researchers want to do? What specific knowledge do the researchers want to gain? What specific hypothesis do the researchers want to test?), Method (How did the researchers do the work or find what they sought? What are the procedures and steps of the research?), or Finding (What did the researchers find out? Did the proposed methods work? Did the thing behave as the researchers expected?). 
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Question: This study aimed to examine the relationship between macroeconomic and nonmacroeconomic variables and hotel stock returns using hotel companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

Answer: purpose


Question: However , it remains unclear at what time the critical exposure occurs ( ie , in infancy or later ) and what role allergen exposure has played in the increasing prevalence and severity of asthma.

Answer: background


Question: were retrospectively included in this study.

Answer:
method