Consider I want to make this sentence shorter:

Also items that had poor parameter estimates were removed from the analysis

Is it correct to turn that had into having  ? :

Also items having poor parameter estimates were removed from the analysis

It doesn't sound good to me. I appreciate if you give me other alternatives.

I want to make this sentence shorter:

Also, items that had poor parameter estimates were removed from the analysis.

Is it correct to turn that had into having?

Also, items having poor parameter estimates were removed from the analysis.

It doesn't sound good to me. I would appreciate it if you could give me other alternatives.