Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology

Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology

Exploring Health System Responsiveness in Ambulatory Care and Disease Management and its Relation to Other Dimensions of Health System Performance (RAC) – Study Design and Methodology

Background The responsiveness of a health system is considered to be an intrinsic goal of  health systems and an essential aspect in performance assessment. Numerous studies have analysed health system responsiveness and related concepts, especially across different countries and health systems. However, fewer studies have applied the concept for the evaluation of specific healthcare delivery s...

The Examination of Employees Statistical Conformity from the Labour Force Survey with the Administrative Records

Programming in the employment fields is the most important and fundamental need of the country, which requires labour force indexes during the periods of time. Now, Statistical Centre of Iran, as the resource of the official statistics in the country is accountable for presenting those data, but other organizations and offices in the country present the relevant figures on this field in lower l...

Optimization, preparation and characterization of rutin-quercetin dual drug loaded keratin nanoparticles for biological applications

Objective(s): Response surface methodology (RSM) by central composite design (CCD) was applied to statistically optimize the preparation of Rutin-Quercetin (Ru-Qr) dual drug loaded human hair keratin nanoparticles as well as evaluate the characteristics. Materials and Methods: The effects of three independent parameters, namely, temperature (X1:10-40 C), surfactant (X2: SDS (1), SLS (2), Tween-...

Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology

Semiparametric regression is a fusion between parametric regression and nonparametric regression and the title of a book that we published on the topic in early 2003. We review developments in the field during the five year period since the book was written. We find semiparametric regression to be a vibrant field with substantial involvement and activity, continual enhancement and widespread ap...