ABSTRACT The series of papers introduced by this one address a range of statistical applications in plant pathology, including survival analysis, nonparametric analysis of disease associations, multivariate analyses, neural networks, meta-analysis, and Bayesian statistics. Here we present an overview of additional applications of statistics in plant pathology. An analysis of variance based on t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to investigate which is the most suitable classification for colorectal cancer, log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) classification or the classifications based on the number of positive lymph nodes (pN) and positive lymph node ratio(LNR) in a Chinese single institutional population. DESIGN Clinicopathologic and prognostic data of 1297 patients w...

Multivariate disease mapping refers to the joint mapping of multiple diseases from regionally aggregated data and continues to be the subject of considerable attention for biostatisticians and spatial epidemiologists. The key issue is to map multiple diseases accounting for any correlations among themselves. Recently, Martinez-Beneito (2013) provided a unifying framework for multivariate diseas...

Although age is thought to correlate with the prognosis of glioma patients, the most appropriate age-group classification standard to evaluate prognosis had not been fully studied. This study aimed to investigate the influence of age-group classification standards on the prognosis of patients with high-grade hemispheric glioma (HGG). This retrospective study of 125 HGG patients used three diffe...

BACKGROUND Noroviruses are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis across all ages worldwide. These pathogens are generally understood to exhibit a wintertime seasonality, though a systematic assessment of seasonal patterns has not been conducted in the era of modern diagnostics. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of the Pubmed Medline database for articles published between 1997...

The aim of the present study was the development of species-habitat models for four Magelona species (Polychaeta: Magelonidae) found in the German Bight in the SE North Sea. Analyses were based on field data and data obtained from reexamination of material deposited in museum collections. In addition, data on environmental variables were retrieved from the sediment map by Figge (1981) and from ...

BACKGROUND Preclinical evidence suggests a beneficial effect of metformin in colorectal cancer. This study aimed to investigate associations between metformin exposure and colorectal cancer-specific survival using population-level data. METHODS Adult patients with stage I-III colorectal cancer diagnosed from 2001 to 2006 were identified from the National Cancer Registry Ireland. Use of metfor...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between dietary patterns and the 12-year risk of frailty and its components in community-dwelling elderly French adults. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING The Bordeaux sample of the Three-City Study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 972 initially nonfrail nondemented participants (336 men and 636 women) aged 73 years on average, re-examined at least on...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Insufficient sleep (sleep deprivation) is a common problem of considerable health, social, and economical impact. We assessed its prevalence and associations, and the role of genetic influences. DESIGN Panel study based on questionnaires administered in 1981 and 1990. SETTING/PATIENTS 12.423 subjects aged 33-60 years included in the Finnish Twin Cohort, representative of th...