Jia Bainga Kangbai

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Is it morally correct for journals to request article processing charges?

I know publishing houses spend lots of money to prepare, publishing and hosting published manuscripts. But considering the fact that they don't pay authors for their manuscript, as well as they...

06 June 2019 3,038 1 View

What's the best drug consumption date?

There is a pharm crisis taking place in my backyard. Recent a cough syrup entered the pharmaceutical market but with manufacturing date of 8th March 2019 and expire date of 20th March 2020. The...

02 February 2019 5,351 1 View

When is predictive analysis using AIC logistic modeling apprpriate?

I am on a treatment outcome studies but confused whether to use AIC stepwise logistic model to predict treatment success using patient clinical and non clinical characteristics....i am analysing...

01 January 2018 3,241 3 View

Should I play it safe with hard to discuss estimate parameters?

Three out of five of my covariates in my logistic model are significant but can only find explanation/ interpretation for one of the significant ones. Should I only discuss the one and leave out...

08 August 2017 5,529 2 View

Should people from Zikka virus affected countries be initially quarantined??

Zikka virus is spreading across south america and the US and this is not a good sign for global public health. During the ebola outbreak in 2014 people coming from countries where the ebola...

02 February 2016 7,016 20 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...

09 September 2015 1,693 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...

01 January 2015 960 7 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...

12 December 2014 4,127 17 View

Is there an article on syndromic surveillance of ebola outbreak?

One main way for containing ebola outbreak and spread is through active surveillance. proper data reporting and monitoring has worked in past outbreak. Does someone know of any publication that...

11 November 2014 7,226 3 View

Does anyone see any link between Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel and the ecological determinants of health behavior?

Most people like myself who have gone through Leon Dash's Rosa Lee novel only see the role of racism and poverty. Could there be other issues the novel is portraying which I am not seeing??

11 November 2014 5,257 0 View

Is he patient zero?

Consider doing an epidemic study and have collected data on the index/primary case. Three months thereafter you are told of someone who died four months prior to the start of your study and with...

10 October 2014 5,175 5 View