A computer program to determine interobserver reliability statistics

Respiratory rate - interobserver reliability study

Background Measuring respiratory rate (RR) is one of the most basic clinical observations performed when accessing acutely ill patients. RR is included in most triage systems and risk stratifications tools, but unlike the other vital signs, RR is typically obtained by a manual count by the nursing staff. Considering how often RR is used in clinical practice and contained in triage systems, it i...

Intrapartum sonography to determine fetal occipital position: interobserver agreement.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the interobserver agreement on the intrapartum ultrasonographic definition of the fetal occipital position. METHODS In 60 singleton pregnancies in labor at term the fetal occipital position was determined by transabdominal ultrasound by two appropriately trained sonographers who were not aware of each other's findings. The Bland-Altman plot was performed and the 95% l...

Probability and statistics with reliability, queuing, and computer science applications

A new computer program (GlycoX) to determine simultaneously the glycosylation sites and oligosaccharide heterogeneity of glycoproteins.

A new computer program, GlycoX, was developed to aid in the determination of the glycosylation sites and oligosaccharide heterogeneity in glycoproteins. After digestion with the nonspecific protease, each glycan at a specific glycosylation site contains a small peptide tag that identifies the location of the glycan. GlycoX was developed in MATLAB requiring the entry of the exact masses of the g...

Using Statistics to Determine Causal Relationships

Does a decision to smoke cigarettes increase the likelihood of a person getting lung cancer? Does changing teachers’ expectations of a student’s performance affect the academic development of that student? Increasingly, such causal questions are being answered with statistics. For both scientists and consumers, it has become important to understand how valid causal studies can be designed and h...