143 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Statistical notes for clinical researchers: Two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)-explor...

the first issue of the archives of anesthesiology and critical care (aacc) appears on the website and reaches your hands after hard endeavors and labor of all concerned. it is a matter of immense pleasure that we could launch the first aacc after a long spell of almost eighty years ever since the first university of medicine came into being in the country. it took us some time to select a title...

BACKGROUND The h-index is a commonly used metric for evaluating the publication performance of researchers. However, in a multidisciplinary field such as medical informatics, interpreting the h-index is a challenge because researchers tend to have diverse home disciplines, ranging from clinical areas to computer science, basic science, and the social sciences, each with different publication pe...

Models are the test jets of modern economics. As mathematical representations of economic theory, they allow economists to see if their ideas can take flight in the face of reality. Like the Wright brothers, whose models contended with gravity, wind and a host of other real-world variables, economists test their theoretical models against the concrete realities of taxes, interest rates, hours w...

235 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Statistical notes for clinical researchers: Nonparametric statistical methods: 1. Nonpa...