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Early-Season Avian Deaths from West Nile Virus as Warnings of Human Infection

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
An analysis of 2001 and 2002 West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance data shows that counties that report WNV-infected dead birds early in the transmission season are more likely to report subsequent WNV disease cases in humans than are counties that do not ...
Stephen C. Guptill, Kathleen G. Julian, Grant L. Campbell, Susan D. Price, Anthony A. Marfin   +4 more
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Measuring Risk Aversion and the Wealth Effect [PDF]

, 2005
Measuring risk aversion is sensitive to assumptions about the wealth in subjects’ utility functions. Data from the same subjects in low- and high-stake lottery decisions allow estimating the wealth in a pre-specified one-parameter utility function ...
Heinemann, Frank
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Detection of Newcastle disease virus and assessment of associated relative risk in backyard and commercial poultry in Kerala, India

Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2022
Background Newcastle disease (ND) is an economically important viral disease affecting the poultry industry. In Kerala, a state in South India, incidences of ND in commercial and backyard poultry have been reported.
Chintu Ravishankar, Rajasekhar Ravindran, Anneth Alice John, Nithin Divakar, George Chandy, Vinay Joshi, Deepika Chaudhary, Nitish Bansal, Renu Singh, Niranjana Sahoo, Sunil K. Mor, Nand K. Mahajan, Sushila Maan, Naresh Jindal, Megan A. Schilling, Catherine M. Herzog, Saurabh Basu, Jessica Radzio‐Basu, Vivek Kapur, Sagar M. Goyal   +19 more
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Influence of cerebral stroke on life prognosis of patients with stable coronary heart disease according to the data of CHD PROGNOSIS registry

Klinicist, 2021
Objective: to assess how cerebral stroke (CS) in patient’s history affectы length life of patients with stable coronary heart disease (СHD), included in the СHD PROGNOSIS registry.Materials and methods. We analyzed the data of patients from CHD PROGNOSIS
S. N. Tolpygina, A. V. Zagrebelnyi, S. Yu. Martsevich   +2 more
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Intensive Case Finding of Tuberculosis and Diabetes Mellitus-Bidirectional Screening of Patients Attending a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Rural Telangana, India [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease of global public health threat. Poor and vulnerable populations are mainly affected with it.
Kiranmai Sannithi, T Ashita Singh, Neelima Angali, Raghuram Prasad, Rajive Kumar Sureka   +4 more
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Relative risk estimation of dengue disease at small spatial scale

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2017
BackgroundDengue is a high incidence arboviral disease in tropical countries around the world. Colombia is an endemic country due to the favourable environmental conditions for vector survival and spread.
D. Martínez-Bello, A. López-Quílez, Alexander Torres Prieto   +2 more
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Semiparametric Relative-risk Regression for Infectious Disease Data

, 2012
This paper introduces semiparametric relative-risk regression models for infectious disease data based on contact intervals, where the contact interval from person i to person j is the time between the onset of infectiousness in i and infectious contact ...
Kenah, Eben
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When do jumps matter for portfolio optimization? : [Version 29 April 2013] [PDF]

, 2013
We consider the continuous-time portfolio optimization problem of an investor with constant relative risk aversion who maximizes expected utility of terminal wealth. The risky asset follows a jump-diffusion model with a diffusion state variable.
Ascheberg, Marius, Branger, Nicole, Kraft, Holger   +2 more
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logbin: An R Package for Relative Risk Regression Using the Log-Binomial Model

, 2018
Relative risk regression using a log-link binomial generalized linear model (GLM) is an important tool for the analysis of binary outcomes. However, Fisher scoring, which is the standard method for fitting GLMs in statistical software, may have ...
Mark W. Donoghoe, I. Marschner
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Absolute risk, absolute risk reduction and relative risk

Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, 2012
This article illustrates the epidemiological concepts of absolute risk, absolute risk reduction and relative risk through a clinical example. In addition, it emphasizes the usefulness of these concepts in clinical practice, clinical research and health ...
Jose Andres Calvache, Markus Klimek
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