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The Choice of Variables in Multiple Regression
Summary This paper is concerned with the analysis of data from a multiple regression of a single variable, y, on a set of independent variables, x 1,x 2,...,xr. It is argued tha...
THE USE OF GROUNDED THEORY FOR THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
ABSTRACT Qualitative social research generates large amounts of non‐standard data which make analysis problematic. This discussion advocates the use of grounded theory as a way ...
HUMAN MATERNAL BEHAVIOR AT THE FIRST CONTACT WITH HER YOUNG
To explore and eamine maternal behavior in human mothers at the first postnatal contact with their young, we quantitatively analyzed photographs taken every second during the fi...
Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis
The proportion of nosocomial infection in patients with COVID-19 was 44% in the early outbreak. Patients attending hospitals should take personal protection. Medical staff shoul...
Assessment of radiologic tests: control of bias and other design considerations.
The assessment of new radiologic tests can be seriously hampered by the presence of systematic bias. Biases can arise from incomplete verification of the sample population; omis...
Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Influenza: An Updated Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Objectives: Corticosteroids may be beneficial in sepsis, but uncertainty remains over their effects in severe influenza. This systematic review updates the current evidence rega...
Fathers' and mothers' responses to the faces and cries of normal and premature infants.
32 White, middle-class couples with 5-mo-old infants were shown videotapes depicting infants who were, in turn quiescent, crying, and quiescent. Half of the parents viewed a nor...
Combining Possibly Related Estimation Problems
Summary We have two sets of parameters we wish to estimate, and wonder whether the James-Stein estimator should be applied separately to the two sets or once to the combined pro...
On Operationalizing the Concept of Commitment
In this study of 318 school teachers and 395 hospital employed nurses, commitment to profession or organization is operationalized as the willingness to leave each system when o...
Respiratory Tract Samples, Viral Load, and Genome Fraction Yield in Patients With Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Lower respiratory tract samples yield significantly higher MERS-CoV loads and genome fractions than upper respiratory tract samples.