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Are ordinal models useful for classification?.

Statistics in medicine

Bell R.
PMID: 1557572
Stat Med. 1992 Jan 15;11(1):133-4. doi: 10.1002/sim.4780110114.

No abstract available.

Can test statistics in covariance structure analysis be trusted?.

Psychological bulletin

Hu LT, Bentler PM, Kano Y.
PMID: 1454899
Psychol Bull. 1992 Sep;112(2):351-62. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.112.2.351.

Covariance structure analysis uses chi 2 goodness-of-fit test statistics whose adequacy is not known. Scientific conclusions based on models may be distorted when researchers violate sample size, variate independence, and distributional assumptions. The behavior of 6 test statistics is...

Analysing curves using kernel estimators.

Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)

Gasser T.
PMID: 1911120
Pediatr Nephrol. 1991 Jul;5(4):447-50. doi: 10.1007/BF01453679.

In this paper a novel statistical method for curve fitting is described and applied to growth data for illustration. This technique, called kernel estimation, is non-parametric and belongs to the class of smoothing methods. Therefore, it does not need...

A bibliography and comments on the use of statistical models in epidemiology in the 1980s.

Statistics in medicine

Gail MH.
PMID: 1805315
Stat Med. 1991 Dec;10(12):1819-85. doi: 10.1002/sim.4780101204.

This paper reviews developments in statistical modelling in epidemiology in the 1980's, with emphasis on cohort and case-control studies. The central roles of the logistic and proportional hazard models are highlighted, and it is shown how these models lead...

Statistics in medical journals: developments in the 1980s.

Statistics in medicine

Altman DG.
PMID: 1805317
Stat Med. 1991 Dec;10(12):1897-913. doi: 10.1002/sim.4780101206.

This paper reviews changes in the use of statistics in medical journals during the 1980s. Aspects considered are research design, statistical analysis, the presentation of results, medical journal policy (including statistical refereeing), and the misuse of statistics. Despite some...

A perspective on Wright and Linacre.

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation

Johnston MV, Findley TW.
PMID: 2334293
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1990 May;71(6):439-40.

No abstract available.

How many raters? Toward the most reliable diagnostic consensus.

Statistics in medicine

Kraemer HC.
PMID: 1609173
Stat Med. 1992 Feb 15;11(3):317-31. doi: 10.1002/sim.4780110305.

When faced with a decision whether or not to treat a patient, to enter or to withdraw a patient from a clinical trial, or any other such binary decision, based on diagnosis with unsatisfactory reliability, can a consensus diagnosis...

Forecasting requirements for health care personnel.

Nursing economic$

Prescott PA.
PMID: 1996150
Nurs Econ. 1991 Jan-Feb;9(1):18-24.

Accurate forecasting of requirements for health care personnel is an important part of avoiding significant imbalances that create costly inefficiencies in health care markets. Manpower shortages threaten access, quality, and costs of health care. This article reviews five general...

Tutorial on modeling ordered categorical response data.

Psychological bulletin

Agresti A.
PMID: 2648444
Psychol Bull. 1989 Mar;105(2):290-301. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.105.2.290.

In the past decade there has been great progress in the development of methodology for analyzing ordered categorical data. Logit and log linear model-building techniques for nominal data have been generalized for use with ordinal data. There are many...

[Mathematical modelling of the estimates of the demand for medical stores].

Voenno-meditsinskii zhurnal

Voronkov OV.
PMID: 1887615
Voen Med Zh. 1991 Apr;(4):65-6.

Rapid and simple calculations make it possible to get precise data for requirements estimate of medical supplies, including opportune replacement of medicaments and other disposables which have a reduced period of storage, etc. The calculations of weight and volume...

[What is the role of statistics in medical science?--a critical essay].

Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy

Hayashi C.
PMID: 1736827
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1992 Feb;19(2):143-59.

In the present paper, the fundamental problems of statistics used in medical science are discussed, based on radical criticism and thorough examination of statistical ideas and methods which are popularly used in the medical field of today. The formal...

The analysis of social network data: an exciting frontier for statisticians.

Statistics in medicine

O'Malley AJ.
PMID: 23023735
Stat Med. 2013 Feb 20;32(4):539-55. doi: 10.1002/sim.5630. Epub 2012 Sep 30.

The catalyst for this paper is the recent interest in the relationship between social networks and an individual's health, which has arisen following a series of papers by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler on person- to-person spread of health...

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