Academic Articles & Research Papers

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics in Seychelles patients diagnosed with dementia

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...

Disposal practices of unused and expired pharmaceuticals among the general public in Quetta city, Pakistan.

ObjectiveAlthough community practices towards disposal of expired and unused medications vary globally, the phenomenon is neglected specifically in developing countries. We, therefore, aimed to assess the disposal practices of unused and ex...

Adaptive Sampling of the Electrocardiogram Based on Generalized Perceptual Features

A non-uniform distribution of diagnostic information in the electrocardiogram (ECG) has been commonly accepted and is the background to several compression, denoising and watermarking methods. Gaze tracking is a widely recognized method for...

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

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...

Therapeutic Efficacy of Orally Delivered Doxorubicin Nanoparticles in Rat Tongue Cancer Induced by 4-Nitroquinoline 1-Oxide

Purpose: Oral cancer is one of the most significant cancers in the world, and squamous cell carcinoma makes up about 94% of oral malignancies. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of doxorubicin plus methotrexate - loa...

Confidence intervals for the common coefficient of variation of rainfall in Thailand

The log-normal distribution is often used to analyze environmental data like daily rainfall amounts. The rainfall is of interest in Thailand because high variable climates can lead to periodic water stress and scarcity. The mean, standard d...

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

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 ...

Correlation between the Findings of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Shoulder and Shoulder Arthroscopy

Introduction: Shoulder pain is a significant cause of decreased functional activity of an individual. The overall prevalence of shoulder pain is 16-26%, which makes it the third most common cause among musculoskeletal complaints. The cau...

The statistical analysis of the mobility and the labor force use

The paper approaches some of the classical methods used in statistics for theanalysis of labor force and proposes new ways of current analysis required foradopting optimal economic patterns and strategies. The proposed methods, thelinear me...

Proficient randomized response model based on blank card strategy to estimate the sensitive parameter under negative binomial distribution

This paper has great potential for estimating population proportion who possess stigmatized character by using Negative binomial distribution as a randomization device. The properties of the proposed estimation procedure have been examined....

The Philosophy of Statistics

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. ...

From the Statistics of Data to the Statistics of Knowledge

Increasingly, datasets are so large they must be summarized in some fashion so that the resulting summary dataset is of a more manageable size, while still retaining as much knowledge inherent to the entire dataset as possible. One conseque...

Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics

Discovering statistics using R

Statistics In Kinesiology

Measurement, statistics and research organizing and displaying data percentiles measures of central tendency measures of variability the normal curve and sampling error correlation, bivariate, and multiple regression the T test - comparing ...

Introduction to Probability and Statistics from a Bayesian Viewpoint

The two parts of this book treat probability and statistics as mathematical disciplines and with the same degree of rigour as is adopted for other branches of applied mathematics at the level of a British honours degree. They contain the mi...

Statistics – An introduction

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that is used to help people to understand the information that is contained in large amounts of data such as numbers. The numbers and other facts that are collected for various purposes are called data....

Information Theory and Statistics

Learning Statistics by Doing Statistics

To help students develop statistical reasoning, a traditional introductory statistics course was modified to incorporate a semester-long sequence of projects, with written and oral reports of the results. Student test scores improved dramat...