Roya Nikbakht

Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

[ 1 ] - Methodological Challenges in Estimation of the Life Time Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption in Iran: Current Practice and Guidelines for Futures Studies

Background: The prevalence of alcohol consumption in Iran cannot be estimated because large variations have been observed in the reported prevalences of alcohol consumption. The main aim of this study was to assess the methodological challenges in estimation of the life time prevalence of alcohol consumed in Iran. By the same token we provided a standard approach for future res...

[ 2 ] - Penalized Lasso Methods in Health Data: application to trauma and influenza data of Kerman

Background: Two main issues that challenge model building are number of Events Per Variable and multicollinearity among exploratory variables. Our aim is to review statistical methods that tackle these issues with emphasize on penalized Lasso regression model.  The present study aimed to explain problems of traditional regressions due to small sample size and m...