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The use of repeated blood pressure measures for cardiovascular risk prediction: a comparison of statistical models in the ARIC study

open access: yesStatistics in Medicine, 2016
Many prediction models have been developed for the risk assessment and the prevention of cardiovascular disease in primary care. Recent efforts have focused on improving the accuracy of these prediction models by adding novel biomarkers to a common set ...
M. Sweeting   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Elicitability and backtesting: Perspectives for banking regulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Conditional forecasts of risk measures play an important role in internal risk management of financial institutions as well as in regulatory capital calculations.
Nolde, Natalia, Ziegel, Johanna F.
core   +3 more sources

Factors Determining the Implementation of Measures Aimed at Preventing Zoonotic Diseases in Veterinary Practices

open access: yesPathogens, 2021
Background: Zoonoses prevention relies mainly on the implementation of different biosecurity measures. This study aimed to assess the level of implementation of biosecurity measures by veterinary practitioners and students and to identify the possible ...
Véronique Renault   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial heterogeneity and risk factors for stunting among children under age five in Ethiopia: A Bayesian geo-statistical model

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Background Understanding the spatial distribution of stunting and underlying factors operating at meso-scale is of paramount importance for intervention designing and implementations.
S. Hagos   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Efficient Approach for Computing Optimal Low-Rank Regularized Inverse Matrices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Standard regularization methods that are used to compute solutions to ill-posed inverse problems require knowledge of the forward model. In many real-life applications, the forward model is not known, but training data is readily available. In this paper,
Chung, Julianne, Chung, Matthias
core   +1 more source

Detecting Risk of Low Health Literacy in Disadvantaged Populations Using Area-based Measures

open access: yeseGEMs, 2017
Introduction: Socio-economic status (SES) and low health literacy (LHL) are closely correlated. Both are directly associated with clinical and behavioral risk factors and healthcare outcomes.
Andrew J. Knighton   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Use of Ozonized Water in the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection in Children Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023
Introduction: Since the reduction of healthcare-associated infections has been a focus for quality patient care, this study aimed to evaluate the surgical site infection rate of children who underwent cardiovascular surgery after implementation of ...
Alexandre Noboru Murakami   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review on statistical methods for protecting privacy and measuring risk of disclosure when releasing information for public use [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society, 2013
Recently, along with emergence of big data, there are incresing demands for releasing information and micro data for public use so that protecting privacy and measuring risk of disclosure for released database become important issues in goverment and business sector as well as academic community.
openaire   +1 more source

The Development of a Risk Management System in the Field of Industrial Safety in the Republic of Kazakhstan

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: The purpose of the work is to develop a system that allows processing of information for analysis and industrial risk management, to monitor the level of industrial safety and to perform necessary measures aimed at the prevention of accidents,
Sergey S. Kudryavtsev   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Theoretical Aspects on Measures of Directed Information with Simulations

open access: yesMathematics, 2020
Measures of directed information are obtained through classical measures of information by taking into account specific qualitative characteristics of each event.
Thomas Gkelsinis, Alex Karagrigoriou
doaj   +1 more source

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