BARNA Member Benefits Survey

Algorithms for Data Science : Lecture 4 Barna Saha

We have seen the Chernoff+Union bound in action in the previous section when we analyzed the outcome of reservoir sampling for items in [1, 100] over m iterations. There the bad event Badi represents the event that item i is not sampled in the range m 100 ± m 200 . Using the Chernoff bound, for each i Pr[Badi] is minuscule. Therefore, the probability that at least one of the bad event happens w...

Therapeutic benefits of cannabis: a patient survey.

Clinical research regarding the therapeutic benefits of cannabis ("marijuana") has been almost non-existent in the United States since cannabis was given Schedule I status in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. In order to discover the benefits and adverse effects perceived by medical cannabis patients, especially with regards to chronic pain, we hand-delivered surveys to one hundred consecu...

The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Adult Member Health Survey.

INTRODUCTION The Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Member Health Survey (MHS) is used to describe sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of the adult membership of this large, integrated health care delivery system to monitor trends over time, identify health disparities, and conduct research. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of the KPNC MHS and share findings that ill...

The Linguistic Data Consortium Member Survey: Purpose, Execution and Results

American Thoracic Society member survey on climate change and health.

The American Thoracic Society (ATS), in collaboration with George Mason University, surveyed a random sample of ATS members to assess their perceptions of, clinical experiences with, and preferred policy responses to climate change. An e-mail containing an invitation from the ATS President and a link to an online survey was sent to 5,500 randomly selected U.S. members; up to four reminder e-mai...