How to estimate nares to LES distance from demographic measures in adults?

There are some formula for estimating nares to lower esophageal sphincter distance in infants based on height. I'm looking for some data in adults to estimate such distance based on gender and...

31 December 2017 1,190 5 View

How to calculate sample size for non-inferiority test using G*Power?

Is it possible to calculate sample size for non-inferiority/superiority tests using the G*Power software?

03 April 2017 6,890 1 View

What band-pass filter is appropriate for continous blood pressure wave analysis?

We use the analogue output of the Portapres device for monitoring continuous blood pressure. Is band-pass filtering necessary for such blood pressure wave analysis? What should be the low/high...

10 November 2016 9,852 15 View

What does it mean when, in the repeated measure analysis, the time x group interaction is significant but between-subject contrast is not significant?

In the repeated measure analysis of the the effect of drug A compared with drug B on the variable C which was measured at times 0, week 2, and week 6, the results were as follows: Test of...

31 December 2014 7,441 13 View

What could be the mechanisms for vitamin D deficiency associated with radiation-induced intestinal injury ?

In a prospective study on patients with pelvic malignancies undergoing pelvic radiotherapy, we found an association between vitamin D deficiency and severity of radiation induced proctitis. This...

11 December 2014 1,496 8 View

What are the Pros and Cons of measuring 1,25(OH)2D in contrast to 25(OH)D to investigate the immunomodulatory effects of vitamin D?

10 November 2014 7,355 7 View

Can anyone recommend a good questionnaire for evaluating coping in cancer patients?

We are looking for a questionnaire to evaluate coping in cancer patients. We look for an instrument designed specifically for cancer patients.

02 March 2014 3,124 3 View

As independent factors, should anxiety and depression be included in a linear regression model separately or simultaneously?

In studying factors associated with sleep in patients with chronic medical conditions we found an association between different factors including anxiety and depression with sleep quality. To...

31 December 2013 7,349 33 View

What is the minimum acceptable item-total correlation in a multi-dimensional questionnaire?

In linguistic validation of some multi-dimensional questionnaires for our population (with 26 to 34 items and about 5 sub-scales), we encountered some questions: What are the minimum acceptable...

10 November 2013 5,304 28 View

Association of BMI and treatment response in rheumatoid arthritis - can anyone help?

Recently we have conducted a prospective study to evaluate if BMI is associated with treatment response to a combination DEMARDs therapy. We found an inverse association between BMI and disease...

09 October 2013 730 14 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View

How to run raise regression in R?

if anybody know how to run raise regression in r, and raise parameter selection, please help me

24 February 2021 8,199 1 View

Can anyone suggest me the best way for Regression analysis of Accidents?

Dear Altruist, I want to make a regression analysis based on accident data. But I am not finding the necessary information about what type of regression is more applicable for analysis accident...

23 February 2021 9,956 3 View