“To Include or Not to Include?” That is NOT the Question

coeliac disease: to classify or not to classify – that is the question!

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the student committee of sports medicine research center: to be independent or not to be? that is the question

To scan or not to scan, to enhance or not to enhance? That is the question.

Hong Kong Med J ⎥ Volume 20 Number 5 ⎥ October 2014 ⎥ www.hkmj.org A 12-year-old boy presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with reduced level of consciousness in February 2011. Collateral history established a prehospital witnessed seizure (requiring benzodiazepine administration) preceded by auditory hallucinations. Apart from uncomplicated malaria at the age of 5 years, there was no othe...

To scavenge or not to scavenge: that is the question.

Analysis of a series of diffraction data sets measured from four native as well as four nicotinic acid-soaked crystals of trypsin at 100 K shows a high variability in radiation-sensitivity among individual crystals for both nicotinic acid-soaked and native crystals. The level of radiation-sensitivity and the extent of its variability is statistically indistinguishable between the two conditions...

To P or not to P: that is the question.

In 1993 Eugene Harris, a well-known biostatistician at the NIH, wrote an editorial for Clinical Chemistry regarding the use of P values vs confidence intervals in the evaluation of scientific data (1 ). This has long been a contentious topic in the scientific world and one with which each new generation of scientists has had to grapple on the basis of arguments advanced for the use of various s...