OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the association between red cell distribution width and short-term mortality risk in patients with acute coronary syndrome. METHODS We prospectively recruited 78 patients with acute coronary syndrome. The study population was classified according to quartiles of the red cell distribution width at hospital admission. A high red cell distribution width was defined as a ...

When reporting incidence rate estimates for relatively rare health conditions, associated case counts are often assumed to follow a Poisson distribution. Case counts obtained from large-scale electronic surveillance systems are often inflated by the presence of false positives, however, and adjusted case counts based on the results of a validation sample will have variances which are hyper-Pois...

Maximum likelihood predictive densities (MLPD) for the inverse Gaussian distribution are derived for the cases of one or both parameters unknown. They are then applied to obtain estimators of the reliability function and prediction or shortest prediction intervals for a future observation. Comparisons with the existing likelihood or frequentist methods show that the MLPD estimators of reliabili...

ECG, electrocardiogram; CT, computed tomography; M1, acute myeloid leukemia without differentiation; WBC, white blood cells; WHO, World Health Organization; CK-MB, creatine kinase–myocardial band; CBC, complete blood count; APL, acute promyelocytic leukemia; AML, acute myelocytic leukemia; ALL, acute lymphocytic leukemia; CD, cluster of differentiation; HLA-DR, human leukocyte antigen–D related...