Pharmacological trials in alcoholics-some comments on methodological problems

Comments on 'some methodological issues in biosurveillance'.

We greatly appreciate the opportunity to comment on this interesting and thought-provoking paper. Dr Fricker has brought up many important issues with respect to biosurveillance, primarily in the very challenging context of syndromic surveillance and other types of public health surveillance with many input data streams. Similar to Dr Fricker, we have backgrounds in industrial statistical proce...

Methodological problems of clinical trials in dementia.

Cigarette affordability trends: an update and some methodological comments.

OBJECTIVES To calculate cigarette affordability for a number of countries using different techniques and data, to investigate trends since 1990 and to assess the appropriateness of different measures of affordability. DESIGN Two existing measures were specified. Relative income price (RIP) uses per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as the measure of income, while "minutes of labour" is base...

on some bayesian statistical models in actuarial science with emphasis on claim count

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global results on some nonlinear partial differential equations for direct and inverse problems

در این رساله به بررسی رفتار جواب های رده ای از معادلات دیفرانسیل با مشتقات جزیی در دامنه های کراندار می پردازیم . این معادلات به فرم نیم-خطی و غیر خطی برای مسایل مستقیم و معکوس مورد مطالعه قرار می گیرند . به ویژه، تاثیر شرایط مختلف فیزیکی را در مساله، نظیر وجود موانع و منابع، پراکندگی و چسبندگی در معادلات موج و گرما بررسی می کنیم و به دنبال شرایطی می گردیم که متضمن وجود سراسری یا عدم وجود سراسر...