Jia Bainga Kangbai

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Conflicting peer reviewers' recommendations?

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...

15 January 2020 6,407 19 View

How important is the intercept (bo) in linear regression interpretation?

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 9,921 11 View

Should vaccine clinical trials be conducted when not much is known about the infection under consideration?

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 8,498 11 View

Should we use odds ratio or relative risk when calculating Vaccine Efficiency in trials?

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 7,238 8 View

Will test-stats result for two sample and One Way ANOVA F-test have identical result in terms of P-value?

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 3,801 6 View

Can one consider coefficient of correlation and covariance between two variables a form of measure of association?

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 7,740 15 View