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Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples [PDF]
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of schoolchildren, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to
Micklewright, John +2 more
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ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between physical activity level, leisure sedentary time, and frailty among residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city, Jiangsu province, and to provide a reference for the prevention and control
Xikang FAN +12 more
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Collecting biomarkers as part of general purpose surveys offers scientists - and social scientists in particular - the ability to study biosocial phenomena, e.g. the relation between genes and human behavior.
Matthias Schonlau +9 more
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Background: Despite their general effectiveness, 14-50% of individuals do not fully respond to evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Philip Held +3 more
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The Improvement of Response Rates and Data Quality of Direct Business Surveys by Centralized Data Collection Approach: the ISTAT Experience [PDF]
In April 2016 ISTAT (Italian National Statistical Institute) started a corporate restructuring process that interested all the statistical production structures and that led to a completely renewed organizational setup.
Giampaola Bellini +2 more
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“Are You a Boy or a Girl?”—A Missing Response Analysis
Many adolescent health surveys ask if respondents are male or female. Non-response may be due to fear of de-anonymisation or being a gender-nonconforming youth. The present study investigates the frequency of non-response and its potential reasons.
Andreas Heinz +3 more
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Predictive Factors of Treatment Resistance in First Episode of Psychosis: A Systematic Review
Background: Clinical and functional outcome improvement in psychotic disorders is a challenge for the investigators. Recent advances offered opportunities for ameliorating the course of the illness during its early stages and for identifying treatment ...
Paola Bozzatello +2 more
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A New Family of Exponential Type Estimators in the Presence of Non-Response
We propose families of estimators for the population mean using an exponential function in case of non-response. This situation is examined under two cases, Case I and II. The bias, MSE and minimum MSE are separately obtained for both cases.
Ceren Unal, Cem Kadilar
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Battling the two-headed dragon of prostate cancer targeted therapy
Neoadjuvant intense androgen deprivation therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer is an emerging but unproven treatment paradigm that is hoped to delay or prevent disease recurrence.
Scott Wilkinson, Adam G. Sowalsky
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ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele +19 more
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