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A Comparison of Frailty Indices in Predicting Postoperative Outcomes After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the discriminatory performance of the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) and modified Frailty Index‐5 (mFI‐5) in predicting postoperative outcomes following endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Methods Adult ESS patients were identified from the ACS‐NSQIP database (2005–2020).
Akshay Warrier, David Remyes, Tenesha Boyd, Ailish Nagpal, Aman M Patel, David W. Wassef, Jean Anderson Eloy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distance mean-square loss function for ordinal text classification of emergency service response codes in disaster management

ETRI Journal
The National Fire Agency (NFA) and National Police Agency (NPA) have defined risk levels based on the severity of disasters. Risk-level data possess the characteristics of ordinal data such as NPA’s Emergency Service Response Code (ESRC) data, which are ...
Eungyeol Lee, Sungwon Byon, Eui-Suk Jung, Eunjung Kwon, Hyunho Park   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of ordinal data in clinical and experimental studies. [PDF]

J Vasc Bras, 2020
Miot HA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Pelvic morphology and body size in relation to the preauricular sulcus: Evidence from medieval to modern Iberia

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The preauricular sulcus has long been debated as a pelvic feature variably attributed to obstetric stress, ligamentous traction, and broader biomechanical processes. To clarify its determinants, we analyzed 409 adult individuals from three archeological and one early modern skeletal collection from the Iberian Peninsula, integrating graded ...
Rebeca García‐González, Julia Muñoz‐Guarinos, Nico Cirotto, Sonia Díaz‐Navarro, Laura Rodríguez, José Miguel Carretero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell, Ian Moffat, Richard Fullagar, Amy Roberts, Justine Kemp, Mike Morley, Marc Fairhead, Simon Hoad, River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimation of a preference based single index from the sexual quality of life questionnaire (SQOL) using ordinal data

There is increasing interest in using ordinal methods to estimate cardinal values for health states to calculate quality adjusted life years. This paper reports the estimation of models of rank data and discrete choice experiment (DCE) data to derive a ...
Ratcliffe, J, Tsuchiya, A, Brazier, J, Symonds, T, Brown, M   +4 more
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Coherence‐Gated Wrapped‐Phase InSAR With Matrix‐Based Uncertainty Diagnostics for Burial‐Mound Hotspot Ranking (Sicily, Italy)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Burial mounds are key elements of Mediterranean funerary landscapes, but in intensively cultivated coastal plains their low‐relief expression is easily obscured by ploughing, levelling and rapidly changing surface conditions, making single‐date observations unreliable.
Salvatore Polverino, Hourakhsh Ahmadnia, Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd Ahmadnia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two-part models for repeatedly measured ordinal data with "don't know" category. [PDF]

Stat Med, 2020
Gueorguieva R, Buta E, Morean M, Krishnan-Sarin S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Clustering Incomplete Ordinal Data

, 2014
Full text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.The issue of missing data is a common problem for researchers and data analysts working with surveys and other types of questionnaires that use ordinal data.
Sun, Xiaobin
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Modified Dixon Fat Quantification Analysis Is a Quantitative and Reliable Method for Evaluating Fatty Atrophy of the Hamstring Muscle Complex After Proximal Avulsion Injury

Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
Purpose To evaluate the reliability and validity of objective fat quantification using the modified Dixon magnetic resonance imaging sequence for assessing fatty degeneration in conservatively treated patients with proximal hamstring avulsion injuries. Methods Magnetic resonance imaging with modified Dixon sequence was used.
John Hanke, Philipp Schenk, Irga Kemal, Markus Heinecke, Philipp Kobbe, Thomas Mendel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source