Allocation Rules and Their Error Rates
Summary The problem of choosing allocation rules and assessing their errors of mis-allocation is formulated in general terms. An inequality connecting the average apparent, the ...
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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...
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...
On the Smoothing of Probability Density Functions
Summary We consider the estimation of a probability density function by linear smoothing of the observed density. A basis for estimation is obtained by assuming that the ordinat...
Scope, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced early in the covid-19 pandemic: rapid review
Abstract Objective To appraise the availability, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced in the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic....
SARS in Hospital Emergency Room
Thirty-one cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred after exposure in the emergency room at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The index patient was link...
Simultaneously reconstructing viral cross-species transmission history and identifying the underlying constraints
The factors that determine the origin and fate of cross-species transmission events remain unclear for the majority of human pathogens, despite being central for the development...
Nuclear cosmochronology within analytic models of the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood
This paper investigates whether the age of the Galaxy can be deduced from natural radioactivity. I demonstrate that two recent influential claims (by Butcher and by Fowler) that...