Cannons and sparrows II: the enhanced Bernoulli exact method for determining statistical significance and effect size in the meta-analysis of k 2 × 2 tables [0.03%]
cannons and sparrow Ⅱ ：改进的bernoulli精确法确定k个2×2表的元分析中的统计学意义和效应量
Lawrence M Paul
Lawrence M Paul
Background: The use of meta-analysis to aggregate the results of multiple studies has increased dramatically over the last 40 years. For homogeneous meta-analysis, the Mantel-Haenszel technique has typically been utilized...
Eric Silverman,Umberto Gostoli,Stefano Picascia et al.
Eric Silverman et al.
Today's most troublesome population health challenges are often driven by social and environmental determinants, which are difficult to model using traditional epidemiological methods. We agree with those who have argued for the wider adopt...
Standard multiple imputation of survey data didn't perform better than simple substitution in enhancing an administrative dataset: the example of self-rated health in England [0.03%]
多重插补法在增强管理数据集方面并未比简单替代法表现更好：以英国自评健康为例
Frank Popham,Elise Whitley,Oarabile Molaodi et al.
Frank Popham et al.
Background: Health surveys provide a rich array of information but on relatively small numbers of individuals and evidence suggests that they are becoming less representative as response levels fall. Routinely collected a...
Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology [0.03%]
凡是可能出错的，就真的会出错：流行病学中的开放式质量方法
Sandra Alba,Masja Straetemans
Sandra Alba
Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined by data quality. The mounting success of quality management in the industrial sector caused a rapid spread throughout ...
Céline Miani,Yudit Namer
Céline Miani
Background: Social media have in recent years challenged the way in which research questions are formulated in epidemiology and medicine, and in particular when it comes to women's health. They have contributed to the eme...
Birth weight and childhood obesity: effect modification by residence and household wealth [0.03%]
出生体重与儿童肥胖：居住地和家庭财富的修饰作用分析
Helen Andriani
Helen Andriani
Background: There are both genetic and environmental factors which contribute to a child's chances of being obese. When low birth weight (LBW) has been specifically evaluated relative to its association with childhood obe...
Cattram D Nguyen,John B Carlin,Katherine J Lee
Cattram D Nguyen
Multiple imputation is a recommended method for handling incomplete data problems. One of the barriers to its successful use is the breakdown of the multiple imputation procedure, often due to numerical problems with the algorithms used wit...
A cohort study of survival following discharge from hospital in rural Tanzanian children using linked data of admissions with community-based demographic surveillance [0.03%]
利用入院和社区人口监测数据研究坦桑尼亚农村地区儿童出院后的生存情况
Oscar Mukasa,Honorati Masanja,Don DeSavigny et al.
Oscar Mukasa et al.
Background: To illustrate the public health potential of linking individual bedside data with community-based household data in a poor rural setting, we estimated excess pediatric mortality risk after discharge from St Fr...
Factors associated with age-disparate sexual partnerships among males and females in South Africa: a multinomial analysis of the 2012 national population-based household survey data [0.03%]
南非2012年人口基础家庭调查数据的多重 logistic 回归分析：南非男性和女性不同年龄性伴侣的相关因素
Musawenkosi Mabaso,Lungelo Mlangeni,Lehlogonolo Makola et al.
Musawenkosi Mabaso et al.
Background: In South Africa, age-disparate to sexual relationships where the age difference between partners is 5 years or greater is an important contributor to the spread of HIV. However, little is known about the predi...
Steven S Coughlin
Steven S Coughlin