A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted with 119 prison inmates of Bankura district, West Bengal to determine the prevalence and socio-economic correlates of mental health problems. Self-Reported Questionnaire was used to gather the information. Results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and bivariate logistic regressions. 84% of inmates were affected with men...

Descriptive statistics for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale summary scores are provided based on data from 1388 1-month-old infants in the Maternal Lifestyle Study (MLS) of prenatal drug exposure and child outcome. The multisite MLS is described, followed by tables with descriptive statistics and percentile for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavior...

A profile of pediatric medical practice is developed using data on visits to officebased physicians collected during the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey in 1980 and 1981. Descriptive statistics highlight physician and practice characteristics, patient characteristics, and aspects of patient condition and management. The first group includes analyses of visit data according to the type a...

Grain size analysis is an essential tool for classifying sedimentary environments. The calculation of statistics for many samples can, however, be a laborious process. A computer program called GRADISTAT has been written for the rapid analysis of grain size statistics from any of the standard measuring techniques, such as sieving and laser granulometry. Mean, mode, sorting, skewness and other s...

Integration of heterogeneous statistics is essential for political decision making on all levels. Like in intelligent information integration in general, the problem is to combine information from different autonomous sources, using different ontologies. However, in statistical information integration specific problems arise. This paper is focussed on the problem of differences in classificatio...

introduction: test anxiety is a common phenomenon among students and is one of the problems of educational system. the present study was conducted to investigate the test anxiety in vital statistics course and its association with academic performance of students at kermanshah university of medical sciences. this study was descriptive-analytical and the study sample included the students studyi...

CONTEXT IS CRITICAL FOR RECOGNIZING ENVIRONMENTS AND FOR SEARCHING FOR OBJECTS WITHIN THEM: contextual associations have been shown to modulate reaction time and object recognition accuracy, as well as influence the distribution of eye movements and patterns of brain activations. However, we have not yet systematically quantified the relationships between objects and their scene environments. H...

What type of analyses are we to expect when we read a study that attempts to measure success or failure of a specific spine procedure? Most analyses are divided into descriptive and analytical statistics, which should be clearly described in the methods section of a study. Descriptive statistics are most frequently used to provide general information about the patients and factors that may be r...