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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
The fifth edition of the <italic>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</italic> of the American Psychiatric Association is referred to as DSM-5<italic>™</italic>...
Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
Abstract This article provides an update on the global cancer burden using the GLOBOCAN 2020 estimates of cancer incidence and mortality produced by the International Agency for...
Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
This article examines the adequacy of the "rules of thumb" conventional cutoff criteria and several new alternatives for various fit indexes used to evaluate model fit in practi...
Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
Abstract This article provides a status report on the global burden of cancer worldwide using the GLOBOCAN 2018 estimates of cancer incidence and mortality produced by the Inter...
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the analysis of multivariate categorical data arising from observer reliability studies. The procedure essentially invo...
Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs
The BLAST programs are widely used tools for searching protein and DNA databases for sequence similarities. For protein comparisons, a variety of definitional, algorithmic and s...
Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
The statistical tests used in the analysis of structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error are examined. A drawback of the commonly applied chi s...
Global cancer statistics
The global burden of cancer continues to increase largely because of the aging and growth of the world population alongside an increasing adoption of cancer-causing behaviors, p...
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
A simple analysis of funnel plots provides a useful test for the likely presence of bias in meta-analyses, but as the capacity to detect bias will be limited when meta-analyses ...