introduction: musculoskeletal growth is variable during adolescent period and reaches its maximum by 18 years, whereas hemopoietic parameters reach adult values by 15 years. after adolescence period, the blood parameters may vary with nutrition and built of the individual. the purpose of this study was to find out any correlation between anthropometric and hematological parameters after the ado...

Consider k success counts from a binomial distribution with unknown N and success probability p. We consider the problem of estimating N. By integrating the likelihood for Nand p over a beta density for p, we obtain the beta-binomial distribution which results in stable and reasonably efficient estimators of N, which compare favorably with and are often better than the estimates introduced by O...

The known estimation and simulation methods for multivariate t distributions are reviewed. A review of selected applications is also provided. We believe that this review will serve as an important reference and encourage further research activities in the area.

Iron deficiency anemia is common problem during pregnancy. Red cell size variation (anisocytosis) is the earliest morphologic changes in iron deficiency anemia. Red cell distribution width is a quantitative measure of red cell size variation and it can give the idea of early iron deficiency before other test to become positive. 190 pregnant women were included in this study. Red cell distributi...

Distribution Extents (DE) of order k for a sample {x1, x2,... xn} of a non-negative stochastic variable X can be defined as

Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is the coefficient of variation of red blood cell size, considered to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study aimed to comprehensively synthesize previous studies on RDW and CVD outcomes through an overall and dose-response meta-analysis. PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched systematically for English and Chinese language pu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is associated with the blood pressure (BP) reverse-dipper pattern in patients with hypertension. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Single centre. PARTICIPANTS Patients with essential hypertension were included in our study (n=708). The exclusion criteria included age <18 or >90 years, incomplete clinical data, ni...

BACKGROUND Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been found to be an independent predictor for adverse outcome in patients with heart failure (HF), but there are no data on the association of longitudinal RDW with all-cause mortality and occurrence of anemia. METHODS AND RESULTS 1,702 patients discharged from a previous admission for acute HF (AHF) were included. RDW was measured during...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of the levels of red blood cell distribution width (RDW) with the severity of atherosclerosis and to determine whether or not the RDW level on admission is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 335 consecutive patients wi...

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