Editorial: how to interpret risks and prediction of complications in Crohn's disease - can our patients interpret them?

How Our Beliefs Contribute to Interpret Actions

In update logic the interpretation of an action is often assumed to be independent from the agents’ beliefs about the situation (see [BMS04] or [Auc05]). In this paper we deal with this type of phenomenon. We also deal with actions that change facts of the situation. We use probability to model the notion of belief and our probabilistic update mechanism satisfies the AGM postulates of belief re...

Serum tumour markers: how to order and interpret them.

How to Interpret Epidemiological Associations

Cardiovascular disease is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. Hypertensive disease, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, diet, and physical inactivity have been identified as risk factors, but they do not entirely explain the worldwide variability of cardiovascular disease (1,2). It has long been suspected that cardiovascular disease mortality may...

How to interpret visual fields.

To cite: Wong SH, Plant GT. Pract Neurol 2015;15: 374–38

How to Interpret Research Statistics

All of these issues relate to the applicability of the research to your learning situation, that is, to the confi dence you can put in the results based on the validity of the study. Throughout this book, we report the results of statistical tests of the research we summarize. Therefore, in this section we briefl y summarize how to interpret those statistical tests. Suppose you read a study com...