Febrile seizure is a common disorder between children with age of 6 month to 6 years and its recurrence is an emotional trauma for parents. Causative factors of febrile seizure have not been completely identified. In this study we determined the correlation between causative factors and probability of febrile seizure occurrence. This study was performed on 344 children factors related to febril...

The common formula used for converting a chi-square test into a correlation coefficient for use as an effect size in meta-analysis has a hidden assumption which may be violated in specific instances, leading to an overestimation of the effect size. A corrected formula is provided.

METHOD(S): The study was done on 100 amenorrheic patients and 100 eumenorrheic controls with normal karyotype. Their finger tip patterns, hypothenar patterns, simian crease, Sydney line, interdigital area patterns (qualitative parameters of DGs) were analyzed. Printing method was used. The observations were correlated not only between subjects and controls but also between subjects with normal ...

For random samples of size n obtained from p-variate normal distributions, we consider the classical likelihood ratio tests (LRT) for their means and covariance matrices in the high-dimensional setting. These test statistics have been extensively studied in multivariate analysis and their limiting distributions under the null hypothesis were proved to be chi-square distributions as n goes to in...

Statistical methods for automatically identifying de pendent word pairs i e dependent bigrams in a cor pus of natural language text have traditionally been performed using asymptotic tests of signi cance This paper suggests that Fisher s exact test is a more ap propriate test due to the skewed and sparse data sam ples typical of this problem Both theoretical and experimental comparisons between...

BACKGROUND Our study used data collected in Chung-Hsing Village to evaluate the relationship between hyperuricemia and the cardiovascular risk factors and the socio-demographic factors in the elderly in May 1998. METHODS All individuals aged 65 and over were studied. A total of 1093 subjects, out of 1774 registered residents, were contacted by face-to-face interview. The response rate was 61....