Predicting business failure of listed companies is a hot topic because of the emergency of financial crisis in developed countries recently. The two classical statistical methods of multivariate discriminant analysis (MDA) and logistic regression (logit) have taken a key role in the area of business failure prediction (BFP). However, they are frequently criticized for the relative low predictiv...

the study assessed the effects of agricultural practices on biodiversity in olamaboro local government are of kogi state, nigeria. one hundred and fifty (150) farmers (respondents) were sampled using simple random sampling technique from five council wards (30 farmers per council ward). data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and logit regression model. results showed that 63%...

OBJECTIVE To explore the factors that determine whether a patient will initiate treatment within a system of health-care services, and the factors that determine whether the patient will be retained in the chosen system, in Nouna, rural Burkina Faso. METHODS The data used were pooled from four rounds of a household survey conducted in Nouna, rural Burkina Faso. The ongoing demographic surveil...

ôbjective: recently, quality of life is a concern of health in psychiatry. schizophrenia is a disorder that has the most regressive effects in societies’ and patients’ behavioural, occupational and psychiatric aspects. the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of life and global function of schizophrenia patients. methods: â hundred schizophrenia patients (with dsm-ïv-tr) who h...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic surgery for common bile duct stones varies procedurally from a transcystic approach to laparoscopic choledochotomy (LC) with or without biliary drainage. However, LC is a difficult procedure with higher documented morbidity than the transcystic approach. We retrospectively investigated risk factors for adverse outcomes of LC. METHODS We used logistic regression models ...