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Statistical methods in microbiology [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1990
Statistical methodology is viewed by the average laboratory scientist, or physician, sometimes with fear and trepidation, occasionally with loathing, and seldom with fondness. Statistics may never be loved by the medical community, but it does not have to be hated by them.
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A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
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The Marshall-Olkin generalized gamma distribution

, 2018
Attempts have been made to define new classes of distributions that provide more flexibility for modelling skewed data in practice. In this work we define a new extension of the generalized gamma distribution (Stacy, The Annals of Mathematical Statistics,
Barriga, Gladys D.C. [UNESP], Adriano K. Suzuki, Dipak K. Dey, Cancho, Vicente G., Dey, Dipak K., Vicente G. Cancho, Francisco Louzada, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Cordeiro, Gauss M., Gladys D.C. Barriga, Suzuki, Adriano K., Louzada, Francisco   +11 more
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
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A guided network estimation approach using multi-omic information

BMC Bioinformatics
Intoduction In systems biology, an organism is viewed as a system of interconnected molecular entities. To understand the functioning of organisms it is essential to integrate information about the variations in the concentrations of those molecular ...
Georgios Bartzis, Carel F. W. Peeters, Wilco Ligterink, Fred A. Van Eeuwijk   +3 more
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Efficient Genomic Prediction of Yield and Dry Matter in Hybrid Potato

Plants, 2023
There is an ongoing endeavor within the potato breeding sector to rapidly adapt potato from a clonal polyploid crop to a diploid hybrid potato crop.
James Adams, Michiel de Vries, Fred van Eeuwijk   +2 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
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Clinical and biological risk factors influencing infant HIV status: a case study of Kisenyi Health Center IV, Kampala, Uganda

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Transmission of HIV from mother to child (MTCT) contributes to 18% of new HIV infections in Uganda. This study aimed at investigating how clinical and biological risk factors were associated with the transmission of HIV from mothers to ...
Francis Xavier Bagonza, John Bosco Asiimwe, Felix Wamono, Dick Nsimbe   +3 more
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Sampling and estimation techniques for the implementation of new classification systems: the change-over from NACE Rev. 1.1 to NACE Rev. 2 in business surveys

Survey Research Methods, 2010
This paper describes some of the methodological problems encountered with the change-over from the NACE Rev. 1.1 to the NACE Rev. 2 in business statistics.
Jan van den Brakel
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Statistical Methods Are Inadequate [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2010
I would agree that, when administering pharmacologically effective medications, the mechanisms that underlie the administration of a placebo should be consciously exploited. I would, however, argue that such mechanisms cannot be achieved with very little effort.
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