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I am revising a manuscript I submitted to a reputable journal with nice impact factor. I came to realise that two of the reviewers have opposing recommendations. What do you suggest I do or how do...
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I am responding to queries from a peer reviewer who is requesting I submit estimate parameters alongside my Odds Ratio. To me I see it as a duplicity and will make the table looks overcrowded. Is...
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I ran a Cox PH regression model accompanied by a test for HR proportional assumption. My Global test result is 0.56 but 3 of my 7 covariates in the Schoenfeld residual show deviation from straight...
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So I am new in R Project and I want to run ROC on my Ebola dataset for optimal model and robustness selection. Its a predictive modeling of ebola patients clinical and non clinical characteristics...
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In the Rothman's causal pie model, a causal component is a factor that acts concertedly with others to produce a sufficient cause (i.e disease) and that a causal component that is common to every...
13 December 2015 915 2 View
It is usually said (at least in epidemiological terms) that in a linear regression the intercept (bo) has no real biological significance when revealing a linear relationship between continuous...
10 December 2015 9,982 11 View
Should vaccine clinical trials be conducted when not much is known about an infection? Barely a month of being declared ebola-free by the WHO the West The African state of Liberia has recorded...
26 November 2015 8,550 11 View
Can someone tell me why OR is used instead of the RR for most vaccine trials? Definitely those trials are prospective cohorts design but browsing through publications including those of CDC on vac...
18 September 2015 7,290 8 View
Hazard is any factor or situation that has an adverse effect on man's health while risk is the probability of an unfavorable event occurring on someone. So does this imply that hazard is a dormant...
27 January 2015 5,523 6 View
Pathogenicity deals with the ability (including genetic) of pathogens to harm their host. But why (and unlike non opportunistic pathogens) should opportunistic microbes have to wait for a faulty...
19 January 2015 8,753 3 View
Assume you have 4 treatment groups (A,B,C,D) with five subjects per group. Should one expect your Two- sample T-stats results and conclusion for A and B to be similar to the One Way ANOVA F-test...
13 January 2015 3,851 6 View
I am wrapping up a study in which I am forced to use chi stats to test the significance of my data. Some of my data (dental caries) involves dependent observations. Will using chi sqr test-stats...
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07 January 2015 5,636 9 View
I am doing a study to determine whether syndromic data can be used to predict the case fatality rate in an epidemic. I have come to realized that determining the coefficient of correlation and...
31 December 2014 7,800 15 View
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Publishing preprint of manuscripts is a growing trend now in academic writing and publication. Preprint gives a heads up and an insight into a particular issue that is worthy of investigation....
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