(1) We conclude that a journal club is a powerful motivator of critical house-staff reading behavior and can help teach epidemiology and biostatistics to physicians-in-training.
(2) The USDA license requirements for present and future veterinary biologics remain essentially unchanged for acceptable rationale and biostatistically significant data establishing consistency of satisfactory production, purity, safety, efficacy and potency.
(3) Indeed, after carefully examining of the microbiological content of these lipsticks, their biostatistical efficiency was also determined.
(4) Since the dependent variable was time to greyout (failure), two contemporary biostatistical modeling procedures (proportional hazard and logistic discriminant function) were used to estimate risk, given a particular subject's profile.
(5) The people under study were the 490 students registered in the first year of Medicine and doing the Biostatistics course.
(6) Through a mailed survey, 588 leaders in CHN service and education identified the following as the most important to include in the core CHN curriculum: a practicum experience; epidemiology; community health assessment and diagnosis; administration and management, including public health administration, management theory, program planning and evaluation, financial management and budgeting, and quality assurance; research methods and biostatistics; health promotion and disease prevention; intervention at the aggregate level; and leadership theory.
(7) The iron balls technique was shown to be the method of choice with regard to biostatistical consistency.
(8) A Biostatistical Monitoring Committee was established to review periodically the procedures and performance of the data coordinating center of the National Cooperative Gallstone Study.
(9) To evaluate blood group (and HL-A) findings biostatistically, one uses the BAYES' Theorem with ESSEN-MOLLER's frequencies X and Y (in two-hypothesis cases).
(10) A possible accidental exchange of the child could be excluded by biostatistical calculations of the probabilities of motherhood, fatherhood and parenthood, and the descent from the parents was proven in both generations.
(11) The alleged father could not be excluded from the paternity in 25 additional blood group marker systems (biostatistical probability of paternity W greater than 99.75%).
(12) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.
(13) Nightingale proposed widespread changes in the reporting of military health status and biostatistics, in sanitary engineering, and in self-care activities.
(14) "Ultimately, it would be very exciting to develop therapy interventions to reset the clock and hopefully keep us young," said Steve Horvath , professor of genetics and biostatistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.
(15) In the biostatistical evaluation of the results of examinations of blood-groups the role of the ADA system seems to be important.
(16) Medical students and doctors need training in biostatistics.
(17) We performed a prospective controlled trial of a monthly journal club to determine if it would increase pediatric residents' knowledge of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
(18) Modern imaging techniques, methodology, and biostatistics have identified risk factors and refined clinical trials such that we question all previous studies of stroke management.
(19) In criminal cases a DNA-profile derived from four single-locus probes always leads to a very high value of discrimination and in paternity testing the probability of paternity always exceeds 99.9% regardless to the reference population used for biostatistical evaluation.
(20) The methodological survey below reviews the present state of this development and is intended to promote further research into biostatistical issues and methods of analysis.
Statistics
Definition:
(n.) The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
(n.) Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
(n.) The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(2) No statistically significant difference was found between sodium hyaluronate and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC).
(3) However, there was no statistically significant difference in mean areas under the LH and FSH curves in the GnRH-treated groups.
(4) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(5) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
(6) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(7) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(8) Statistically significant increases of triglycerides occurred under the combined preparations, of phospholipids under Ovosiston and Deposiston and of the beta-lipoproteins under Ovosiston and Gravistat.
(9) Moreover, the data showed for the first time that DNA synthesis in the bone marrow and spleen and colon were markedly statistically significantly stimulated at specific times after treatment.
(10) = 19) with a very low, but statistically significant, correlation with the AUC, r = 0.35 (p less than 0.05), thus demonstrating a very great individual variation in sensitivity to cimetidine.
(11) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
(12) Differences between N1 and N2 disease were not statistically significant.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(15) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(18) The results are analysed statistically and summarized in graphs.
(19) Mononuclear phagocytic cells from patients with either principal form of leprosy functioned similarly to normal monocytes in phagocytosis while their fungicidal activity for C. pseudotropicalis was statistically significantly altered and was more evident in the lepromatous than in the tuberculoid type.
(20) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.