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Misperception of Body Weight After Childhood Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Misperception of body weight can negatively impact the weight management efforts of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs). Both being overweight or underweight are associated with chronic health conditions commonly observed in CCS; therefore, accurate weight perception is critical for reducing long‐term health risks.
Fabiën N. Belle +8 more
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On a Logistic Approximation to the Normal and Other Cumulative Distribution Functions
Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2014 This paper proposes an approach that maintains the simplicity of various approximations as well as having a closed- form algebraic inverse yet easily generalizable to the approximation of other cumulative distribution functions.
Roberto N. Padua +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Neurotoxicity is a rare, often dose‐limiting adverse effect of methotrexate (MTX) therapy that disproportionally affects Latino children. Factors contributing to the observed disparity are not well understood. This study leveraged admixture mapping to identify genetic regions associated with MTX‐related neurotoxicity susceptibility ...
Rachel D. Harris +24 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Germ cell tumors (GCTs) often arise in the ovaries and testes (extracranial) but can also develop in the brain (intracranial). We examined the relationship of individual, family, and community‐level socioeconomic status (SES) with stage of disease at diagnosis in a cohort of pediatric patients with GCT from Children's Oncology Group
Heydon K. Kaddas +7 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Childhood aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease, and both the disease itself and its treatment cause significant morbidity. We aimed to determine the contemporary incidence of childhood AA in Finland, to compare the clinical characteristics of AA against inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) and refractory cytopenia of ...
Lauri‐Matti Kulmala +8 more
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Exact distribution of the sum of two correlated chi-square variables and its application
Kuwait Journal of Science, 2013 The exact distribution of the sum of two chi-square random variables is known if the variables are independent. We derive the exact distribution of the sum of two correlated chi-square variables when they are correlated through a bivariate chi-square ...
ANWAR H. JOARDER, M. HAFIDZ OMAR
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Biostatistics series module 4: Comparing groups - categorical variables
Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2016 Categorical variables are commonly represented as counts or frequencies. For analysis, such data are conveniently arranged in contingency tables. Conventionally, such tables are designated as r × c tables, with r denoting number of rows and c denoting ...
Avijit Hazra, Nithya Gogtay
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A Method of CHI-square Feature Selection Based on Probability [PDF]
Jisuanji gongcheng, 2016 Traditional CHI-square feature selection method does not take into account the category number of words in imbalanced data sets,the frequency of words,the intra-class and inter-class distribution of words,so that it fails to choose valid feature words ...
ZHANG Huiyi,XIE Yeming,YUAN Zhixiang,SUN Guohua
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Nephrogenic rests (NRs) and nephroblastomatosis (NBM) are precursor lesions for development of Wilms tumor (WT). Their association with the risk of relapse has not been properly assessed, partly due to misunderstanding of their diagnostic criteria and terminology.
Gordan M. Vujanić +5 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo +5 more
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