A case-control study is a type of medical research investigation often used to help determine the cause of a disease, particularly when investigating a disease outbreak or rare condition. If public ...

Length of stay outliers are associated with hospital-acquired infections, complications, and discharge to facility, as opposed to nonmodifiable risk factors like age and comorbidities. Objectives: ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 42, No. 4, Special Issue: Conference on Practical Bayesian Statistics, 1992 (1993), pp. 385-397 (13 pages) Bayesian ideas ...

A case-control study was performed in South Australia to determine if L. longbeachae infection was associated with recent handling of commercial potting mix and to examine possible modes of ...

Whereas cardiovascular disease-related mortality has declined in most developed countries, its known prevalence is increasing worldwide, although few data on the causes of heart disease in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Brent E Hagel, Department of Paediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; brent.hagel{at}albertahealthservices.ca Background ...

Define statistical power List the potential consequences of doing a study that has low power, and also a study that has too much power. Explain what a type 1 and type ...

Biomarker changes that occur in the period between normal cognition and the diagnosis of sporadic Alzheimer’s disease have not been extensively investigated in longitudinal studies. We conducted a ...