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Advanced Statistics: Bootstrapping Confidence Intervals for Statistics with "Difficult" Distributions

Jason S. Haukoos, Roger J. Lewis • Academic Emergency Medicine (2005)

The use of confidence intervals in reporting results of research has increased dramatically and is now required or highly recommended by editors of many scientific journals. Many resources describe methods for computing confidence intervals...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2005.tb01958.x

Statistics for Epidemiology

Nicholas Patrick Jewell • Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks (2003)

Statistical ideas have been integral to the development of epidemiology and continue to provide the tools needed to interpret epidemiological studies. Although epidemiologists do not need a highly mathematical background in statistical theo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781482286014

Descriptive statistics

Parampreet Kaur, Jill C. Stoltzfus, Vikas Yellapu • International Journal of Academic Medicine (2018)

Descriptive statistics are used to summarize data in an organized manner by describing the relationship between variables in a sample or population. Calculating descriptive statistics represents a vital first step when conducting research a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijam.ijam_7_18

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics in Seychelles patients diagnosed with dementia

Bienvenido Rodríguez-Lezcano, Doris Jeanlouis, Daniella Agnes Malulu, Carmen Vázquez-Lazo • Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta (2023)

Background: dementia has now become a major cause of death, leading to disability and dependence. Objective: to characterize clinical and epidemiological variables in patients with dementia in Seychelles, from July 2018 to August 2019. Me...

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SveDem, the Swedish Dementia Registry - a tool for improving the quality of diagnostics, treatment and care of dementia patients in clinical practice.

Dorota Religa, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Pavla Cermakova, Ann-Katrin Edlund et al. • PLoS ONE (2015)

BackgroundThe Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem) was developed with the aim to improve the quality of diagnostic work-up, treatment and care of patients with dementia disorders in Sweden.MethodsSveDem is an internet based quality registry w...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116538

White matter structural changes in the visual pathway of thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy patients: a free water and multi-shell diffusion imaging study

Jiaqi Yao, Jiaqi Yao, Xinjian Lu, Jingxu Ma et al. • Frontiers in Neurology (2025)

BackgroundCompared to single-shell diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), free water (FW) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) offer a more comprehensive evaluation of microstructural alterations in cerebral white matter ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1598510

The Philosophy of Statistics

D. V. Lindley • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) (2000)

This paper puts forward an overall view of statistics. It is argued that statistics is the study of uncertainty. The many demonstrations that uncertainties can only combine according to the rules of the probability calculus are summarized. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9884.00238

Do Ankle Sleeves And Lace-Up Braces Effect Neuromuscular Control And Athletic Performance?

Blake Bodendorfer, Gary Stover, Christopher Ryan James MD, Nicholas R. Arnold BS et al. • Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine (2015)

Objectives: Athletes commonly wear fitted silicone ankle sleeves (SAS) and lace-up ankle braces (LAB). There is limited data about their effect on neuromuscular control or athletic performance. Our goal is to evaluate their efficacy in a yo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/2325967115S00042

Regional, subregional and country-level full vaccination coverage in children aged 12–23 months for 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data

Adama Ouedraogo, Patrice Ngangue, David Jean Simon, Vénunyé Claude Kondo Tokpovi et al. • BMJ Global Health (2025)

Objective This study estimated the proportion of children aged 12–23 months who were fully vaccinated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), explored geographical disparities across subregions and countries, and identified country-level factors assoc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-018333

¡Salvemos a Freud!: Juan Marín, Pablo Neruda, la Alianza de Intelectuales y las vicisitudes de un intento de asilo político al creador del psicoanálisis en Chile (1938)

Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato • Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2014)

This paper recovers the efforts made by the Alliance of Intellectuals for the Defense of Culture (A.I. CH) and the Medical Society of Valparaiso to offer political asylum in Chile to Sigmund Freud. These groups leds by Pablo Neruda and Juan...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/nuevomundo.67241

Thinking Geographically

Peter Jackson • Geography (2006)

Based on a recent presentation at the GA Annual Conference (Manchester 2006), this article presents an argument for the power of thinking geographically, emphasising the discipline's grammar (its concepts and theories) as well as its vocabu...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2006.12094167

Geographical information science

Michael Frank Goodchild • International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (1992)

. Research papers at conferences such as EGIS and the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling address a set of intellectual and scientific questions which go well beyond the limited technical capabilities of current technology in ge...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02693799208901893

Introducing Human Geographies

PAUL J. CLOKE, Philip Crang, Mark Goodwin • Routledge eBooks (2013)

Introducing Human Geographies is a comprehensive, stimulating and innovative introduction to human geography. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition. Now in full ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203785317

Listening geographies

Michael Gallagher, Anja Kanngieser, Jonathan Prior • Progress in Human Geography (2016)

This paper argues for expanded listening in geography. Expanded listening addresses how bodies of all kinds, human and more-than-human, respond to sound. We show how listening can contribute to research on a wide range of topics, beyond enq...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516652952

Geographies of Economies

Roger Lee, Jane Wills • Routledge eBooks (2014)

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultura...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315832500