The Stein-Leventhal Syndrome [Abridged]

Adrenocortical hyperfunction in idiopathic hirsutism and the Stein-Leventhal syndrome.

The Stein-Leventhal syndrome; a curable form of sterility.

In 1958, Irving Freiler Stein Sr. published ?The Stein-Leventhal Syndrome: A Curable Form of Sterility? documenting his findings on the diagnosis and surgical treatment of Stein-Leventhal syndrome. Stein-Leventhal syndrome, later called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), affects the reproductive health of women. Common symptoms include excess body hair, a lack of menstrual cycle or amenorrhea,...

Association of Stein-Leventhal syndrome with the incidence of postmenopausal breast carcinoma in a large prospective study of women in Iowa.

BACKGROUND The Stein-Leventhal syndrome (SLS), first described in 1935, is characterized by infertility, hyperandrogenization, and obesity. Because this phenotype represents an aggregation of risk factors for postmenopausal breast carcinoma, and because in general, a hormonal imbalance underlies the disorder, the authors examined the association between self-reported SLS and breast carcinoma in...

Reversing the Stein Effect

The Reverse Stein Effect is identified and illustrated: A statistician who shrinks his/her data toward a point chosen without reliable knowledge about the underlying value of the parameter to be estimated but based instead upon the observed data will not be protected by the minimax property of shrinkage estimators such a" that of James and Stein, but instead will likely incur a greater error th...

The History of Histograms (abridged)

The history of histograms is long and rich, full of detailed information in every step. It includes the course of histograms in different scientific fields, the successes and failures of histograms in approximating and compressing information, their adoption by industry, and solutions that have been given on a great variety of histogram-related problems. In this paper and in the same spirit of ...