Biometry

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Using the case-discussion method to teach epidemiology and biostatistics.

Medical students must learn the principles of epidemiology and biostatistics to critically evaluate the medical literature. However, this subject has traditionally been difficult to teach. In 1997 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the required ...
Paul R Marantz, William Burton, Penny Steiner-Grossman (Acad Med, 200304)
case-discussion-method-teach-epidemiology-biostatistics.asp

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Clinical assessment of the Zeiss IOLMaster.

PURPOSE: To compare axial lengths and intraocular lens (IOL) power calculations obtained with the Zeiss IOLMaster by 2 observers with different training grades and to assess the agreement between optical and acoustic biometry. SETTING: Department of ...
Ingrid Kielhorn, Madhavan S Rajan, Peter M Tesha, Visva Raja Subryan, John A Bell (J Cataract Refract Surg, 200303)
clinical-assessment-zeiss-iolmaster.asp

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Developments in the instruction of biostatistics at the Kuwait University Health Science Centre in a decade.

BACKGROUND: Kuwait has witnessed many changes that influenced, among other things, the structure of medical education including biostatistics. This article describes the developments in biostatistics instruction and curriculum in the Health Science ...
Mohamed A A Moussa (Teach Learn Med, 2002SUMMER)
developments-instruction-biostatistics-kuwait-university-health.asp

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Intensive short courses in biostatistics for fellows and physicians.

At both of our universities we teach (with colleagues) introductory courses in statistics for fellows and physicians. We do not expect that those taking these courses will be able to do their own statistical work, but rather the intention is for them to ...
Walter T Ambrosius, Amita K Manatunga (Stat Med, 200209)
intensive-short-courses-biostatistics-fellows-physicians.asp

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Use of quasi-least squares to adjust for two levels of correlation.

This article considers data with two levels of association. Our motivating example is an international intervention trial with repeated observations on subjects who reside within geographically defined clusters. To account for the potential correlation ...
Justine Shults, Ardythe L Morrow (Biometrics, 200209)
quasi-least-squares-adjust-two-levels-correlation.asp

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Repeated measures with zeros.

Consider repeated measures data with many zeros. For the case with one grouping factor and one repeated measure, we examine several models, assuming that the nonzero data are roughly lognormal. One of the simplest approaches is to model the zeros as ...
K N Berk, P A Lachenbruch (Stat Methods Med Res, 200208)
repeated-measures-zeros.asp

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Recruitment of anterior dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in human reasoning: a parametric study of relational complexity.

Reasoning and problem solving depend on the ability to represent and integrate complex relationships among stimuli. For example, deciding whether an animal is dangerous requires integrating information about the type of animal, its size, its distance ...
James K Kroger, Fred W Sabb, Christina L Fales, Susan Y Bookheimer, Mark S Cohen, Keith J Holyoak (Cereb Cortex, 200205)
recruitment-anterior-dorsolateral-prefrontal-cortex-human-reasoning.asp

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A new approach to training back-propagation artificial neural networks: empirical evaluation on ten data sets from clinical studies.

We present a new approach to training back-propagation artificial neural nets (BP-ANN) based on regularization and cross-validation and on initialization by a logistic regression (LR) model. The new approach is expected to produce a BP-ANN predictor at ...
Antonio Ciampi, Fulin Zhang (Stat Med, 200205)
new-approach-training-back-propagation-artificial-neural-networks.asp

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A seminar series in applied biostatistics for clinical research fellows, faculty and staff.

Familiarity with experimental design and statistical analysis techniques is necessary for investigators to conduct state-of-the-art research in clinical medicine. A wide range of options for biostatistical training is available. These include formal ...
Reena Deutsch (Stat Med, 200203)
seminar-series-applied-biostatistics-clinical-research-fellows.asp

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Teaching statistics in schools of public health.

Biostatistics plays an important role in the education and training of public health students. The aim of this paper is to discuss issues associated with the teaching of biostatistics for master in public health (MPH) students. It characterizes the ...
Orly Manor (Public Health Rev, 2002)
teaching-statistics-schools-public-health.asp