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Workshop report: building biostatistics capacity in Sub-saharan Africa-taking action [PDF]
, 2016 To address the need for capacity development in biostatistics in the Sub-Saharan African region and to move recommendations from previous workshops into action, we brought together biostatisticians from the region to provide an opportunity to brainstorm ...
Conradie, Willie +4 more
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Landscaping biostatistics education in India
Indian Journal of Public Health, 2012 Biostatistics plays an important role in measuring, understanding, and describing the overall health and well-being of a population. Biostatistics as a subject evolved from the application of statistics in various research aspects of biology, biomedical ...
Ranjana Singh +4 more
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Contact intervals, survival analysis of epidemic data, and estimation of R_0 [PDF]
Biostatistics 12(3): 548-566, July 2011, 2009 We argue that the time from the onset of infectiousness to infectious contact, which we call the contact interval, is a better basis for inference in epidemic data than the generation or serial interval. Since contact intervals can be right-censored, survival analysis is the natural approach to estimation. Estimates of the contact interval distribution
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Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, 2017 Introduction: Biostatistics is a discipline concerned with how we ought to make decisions when analysing biomedical data. As statistics is desirable at every stage of research to obtain scientifically important information and reliable results, the ...
Gautami S Penmetsa +2 more
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Tutorial on Biostatistics: Longitudinal Analysis of Correlated Continuous Eye Data
Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2020 Purpose: To describe and demonstrate methods for analyzing longitudinal correlated eye data with a continuous outcome measure. Methods: We described fixed effects, mixed effects and generalized estimating equations (GEE) models, applied them to data from
G. Ying, M. Maguire, R. Glynn, B. Rosner
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A Unified Approach to Analysis of MRI Radiomics of Glioma Using Minimum Spanning Trees
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Radiomics has shown great promise in detecting important genetic markers involved in cancers such as gliomas, as specific mutations produce subtle but characteristic changes in tumor texture and morphology.
Olivier B. Simon +9 more
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A Conversation with Robert C. Elston [PDF]
Statistical Science 2015, Vol. 30, No. 2, 258-267, 2015 Robert C. Elston was born on February 4, 1932, in London, England. He went to Cambridge University to study natural science from 1952-1956 and obtained B.A., M.A. and Diploma in Agriculture (Dip Ag). He came to the US at age 24 to study animal breeding at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. in 1959.
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Contrast Specific Propensity Scores [PDF]
Biostatistics & Epidemiology 2021, 2020 Basic propensity score methodology is designed to balance multivariate pre-treatment covariates when comparing one active treatment with one control treatment. Practical settings often involve comparing more than two treatments, where more complicated contrasts than the basic treatment-control one,(1,-1), are relevant.
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2012 no ...
Zheng, T., Boffetta, P., Boyle, P.
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