methodological and statistical comments on caspian-iii study

Methodological and Statistical Comments on CASPIAN-III Study

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Kelishadi and her colleagues have done a great job for determining students' high risk behaviors (1) and have published part of this study as percentiles of aminotrans-aminases in Iranian children (2) These data are only from Iran, a country in Middle East and not children...

methodological and statistical comments on t helper cytokines profile and hepatitis c

Methodological and Statistical Comments on T Helper Cytokines Profile and Hepatitis C

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. I read with much interest paper by Sofian M et al. about serum profile of T helper 1 and 2 cytokines in HCV infected patients (1). They have presented that " unfortunately, some immunological indicators are not normally distributed , and this can minimally affect the resul...

Comments on 'some methodological issues in biosurveillance'.

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to comment on this interesting and thought-provoking paper. Dr Fricker has brought up many important issues with respect to biosurveillance, primarily in the very challenging context of syndromic surveillance and other types of public health surveillance with many input data streams. Similar to Dr Fricker, we have backgrounds in industrial statistical proce...

Methodological comments: McFarlane et al.

Does the McFarlane et al study provide a model for practical trials? Unfortunately, not. The methodological problems are here reviewed and used as a springboard to set out methodological criteria that might define such a model.

Comments on the Statistical Significance Testing Articles

This review assumes a middle-of-the-road position regarding the controversy. The author expresses that significance tests have their place, but generally prefers confidence intervals. His remarks concentrate on ten errors of commission or omission that, in his opinion, weaken the arguments. These possible errors include using the jackknife and bootstrap procedures for replicability purposes, om...