Einstein's attitude towards experiments: Testing relativity theory 1907–1927

Attitude of Health Care Professionals Towards Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV/AIDS

Introduction: HIV counseling and testing is the vital and preliminary interventional step aimed at reducing the spread of HIV infection. The study was designed to determine the attitude of health care professionals towards voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional prospective study a sel...

Erwin Finlay Freundlich and Testing Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Parental attitude towards genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in children.

Nationwide screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), using family investigation and molecular testing, has been operative in The Netherlands since 1994. FH is a common inherited disorder of lipoprotein metabolism with a prevalence of 1 in 400 to 500 persons in western societies. Untreated, the disorder leads to hypercholesterolaemia, premature cardiovascular disease, and untimely death...

Experiments with attitude: attitude displays for teleoperation

0-7803-7952-7/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE. Abstract – Attitude control refers to controlling the pitch and roll of a mobile robot. As environments grow more complex and cues to a robot’s pose sparser it becomes easy for a teleoperator to lose situational awareness. Information from separated attitude displays may be difficult to integrate with an ongoing navigation task and lead to errors. In this pa...

Towards a General Theory of Optimal Testing

In Pericchi and Pereira (2012)it is argued against the traditional way on which testing is based on fixed significance level, either using p-values (with fixed levels of evidence, like the 5% rule) or α values. We instead, follow an approach put forward by DeGroot (1975), on which an optimal test is chosen by minimizing type I and type II errors. Morris DeGroot in his authoritative book (1975),...