An evaluation was made of the diagnostic efficacy and utility of the Parasight-F test in diagnosing Plasmodium falciparum malaria, compared with conventional microscopy, particularly in severe and complicated cases. This study was designed as a prospective, case control hospital-based study. Febrile patients suspected to be suffering from malaria were selected randomly and were subjected to per...

of the variation in the data, and we would disagree that the straight line is “obviously bad” or “not a good description of the data.” We do not advocate elimination of the term “test for the significance of the regression,” but we would like to see the term “goodness of fit” associated with F = MSifMS and dissociated from F = MS101/MSpe. The larger the value of F = MSiact / MS, the greater is ...