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It is believed that between a quarter and a third of the world's population is latently infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The importance of latency is reflected in a huge drive by research...
23 February 2023 4,825 4 View
In order to investigate the level of humidity of a soil for irrigation purposes, I'd like to learn more on different types of technology that could define soil's level of humidity as a criteria to...
29 June 2022 9,597 11 View
As in the image below, may someone help us on how to estimate the parameters used on epidemiological mathematical modeling described in systems of non linear differential equations? Any possible...
23 January 2021 3,031 3 View
It is generally asserted that all smallpox carriers are symptomatic. But what is the actual evidence for this? This is an absolutely crucial assumption, and, if wrong, makes the epidemiology of...
22 December 2020 8,413 13 View
Research in prevalence usually provide results in per-tooth/object level and per-patient level. What is the significance of these two values and which is actually more important/accurate? What are...
11 December 2020 4,413 4 View
Dear Scientific Community, I need people to validate questionnaires for my Cross-sectional research projects. You would be Co-authors. Please may I ask you to send an email to me (if you are...
10 December 2020 1,155 18 View
Dear Colleagues, May I ask if anyone is interested to make a 2 hour meeting to teach Questionnaire Validation? For Cross-sectional design studies. The meeting will be on zoom and then will be...
07 December 2020 6,735 3 View
I have reformulated the question I mean a statistical approach for adjusting values using multiple linear regression which is often used in ecological studies (e.g. Urashima et al., 2020 Int J...
14 October 2020 3,310 5 View
In a population dynamical system, the non-explosion property is often not good enough but the property of ultimate boundedness is more desired. The conditions for the ultimate boundedness are much...
09 September 2020 1,441 1 View
Hi! I am working on an epidemiological database in which data is expressed in terms of frequency and not as individual cases. The frequencies are too much (hundreds of thousands) to reconvert in...
30 July 2020 6,554 4 View
I have a data set of animal disease from 2011 to 2018. The data consisted of the number of cases per month. I want to ask the techniques that can be used for checking seasonal pattern. I tried to...
19 July 2020 4,915 3 View
Hello all, I am trying to find out, whether (and how) I can implement the Cox proportional hazard models into mediation analysis? In my study, I would like to test whether lung function mediated...
01 July 2020 7,634 3 View
With pulmonary TB so prevalent in our part of the world we seen a lot of cases of acute abdomen, or abdominal ascitis or strictures where our suspicion is high for abdominal TB but diagnosing it...
24 June 2020 5,503 1 View
Covid-19 in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a global crisis leading to huge number of economic losses, morbidity, and mortality. This emerging...
23 June 2020 8,176 8 View
The virus has a reproductive number of 2-4 persons per new infected person. There are many variables to take into consideration concerning calculating the time until the pandemic is over....
01 June 2020 6,106 2 View
In the last few months, SIR-like models have been intensively used to represent the propagation dynamics of COVID-19 continuously. Even accepting that, to some degree, the different underlying...
27 May 2020 6,186 10 View
Dear colleagues, I have to report incidence rates for spontaneous pneumothorax, which from a study has an incidence in males of 19.3 and 8.1 in females(per 100000). I wanted to report a general...
21 May 2020 1,602 2 View
UK and US scientists specializing in big data and epidemiology have launched a COVID-19 symptom tracker app. The app collects daily information from individuals in the community about whether they...
14 May 2020 5,724 7 View
I am studying the characteristics of frequency in teaching applied statistics and in epidemiology. Frequency represents the number of observations of the same value. For example, the number of...
26 April 2020 9,617 4 View
In the 1918 flu pandemic and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, second waves were worse. There are hypotheses for this but my question is whether it's always the case for novel pandemic agents. More...
21 April 2020 7,861 1 View
Much has been said about the CFR for COVID-19. However, what is clear so far is that it varies greatly from country to country. Mainly because the pathophysiology of this disease depends on many...
18 April 2020 10,005 11 View
Hi! In my attempt to write the review of related literature (ROL) of my master's thesis, I decided to have this subsection on the epidemiology of my outcome. As I look for studies on this, there's...
15 April 2020 6,175 1 View
These days many of academic teachers around the world have switched to e-teaching due to current epidemiological situation related to SARS-CoV-2. This is a great challenge to both students,...
01 April 2020 2,198 5 View
Although in electronic media many predictions about COVID-19 abound, is there a scientific prediction when the this pandemic would die down? Would this time come when it has affected 50-70% of the...
28 March 2020 3,222 7 View