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Modeling the Association Structure in Doubly Robust GEE for Longitudinal Ordinal Missing Data [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2015
Generalized Estimation Equations (GEE) are a well-known method for the analysis of categorical longitudinal responses. GEE method has computational simplicity and population parameter interpretation. In the presence of missing data it is only valid under the strong assumption of missing completely at random.
arxiv  

Clinical and echocardiographic features of children with rheumatic heart disease and their serum cytokine profile

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2012
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a devastating squeal of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in Africa. Recent evidence suggests that T-cell lymphocytes play an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatic carditis.
Sulafa Khalid Mohamed Ali   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adams-Stokes attack as the first symptom of acute rheumatic fever: report of an adolescent case and review of the literature

open access: yesItalian Journal of Pediatrics, 2012
Background Acquired complete heart block, in pediatric age is mainly the results of direct injury to conduction tissue during cardiac surgery or cardiac catheterisation.
Carano Nicola   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Distributed Sensor Data Search Platform for Internet of Things Environments [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2016
Recently, the number of devices has grown increasingly and it is hoped that, between 2015 and 2016, 20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet and this market will move around 91.5 billion dollars. The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed of small sensors and actuators embedded in objects with Internet access and will play a key role in ...
arxiv  

Leishmaniasis in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A National Multicenter Study of GETECCU

open access: yesUnited European Gastroenterology Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Leishmaniasis (LI) is a vector‐borne illness caused by a protozoan of the genus Leishmania. Data on the features of LI in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are scarce. Aim To describe the characteristics of patients with IBD who present with leishmaniasis, infection outcomes and the risk factors associated with ...
L Madero‐Velázquez   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Tracy-Widom Empirical Estimator For Valid P-values With High-Dimensional Datasets [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
Recent technological advances in many domains including both genomics and brain imaging have led to an abundance of high-dimensional and correlated data being routinely collected. Classical multivariate approaches like Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) can be used to study relationships between such ...
arxiv  

Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Rheumatic Fever in a Patient with Multiple Emergency Department Visits

open access: yesCase Reports in Pediatrics, 2018
While the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in the United States has declined over the past years, the disease remains one of the causes of severe cardiovascular morbidity in children. The index of suspicion for ARF in health care providers may be
Inna Kaminecki   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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