The Mann-Kendall test is a commonly-used nonparametric test for time trend. However, the standard P-values obtained from it are based on an assumption of independence between observations (since the theory is that of the Kendall correlation). However, observations in time series are often autocorrelated: knowing that one observation is larger than the mean may tell you that the next observation...

This is a major contribution to the expanding field of the history of alternative medicine in Germany. Martin Dinges, historian and archivist of the Homeopathy Archives of the Robert Bosch Institute for the History of Medicine, demands a new approach towards the history of homeopathy in order to overcome the traditional interest, which concentrated mainly on Samuel Hahnemann and the effect of c...

Smit, A., Espinoza, D., Newson, A., Morton, R., Fenton, G., Freeman, L., Dunlop, K., Butow, P., Law, M., Kimlin, M., Kirk, J., Mann, G., Cust, A., et al (2017). A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Impact of Giving Information on Personalized Genomic Risk of Melanoma to the Public. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 26(2), 212-221. <a href="http...

I welcome the latest issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal with a Special Section on Tuberculosis (TB) and the Right to Health. TB is indeed a major challenge to global health. It is one of the most serious impediments to the attainment of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that recognise the interdependence of health and development. SDG 3 aims to “attain healthy lives and wel...

In this note, we follow the strategy of Haller, Rybicki and Teichmann to give a short, self contained, and elementary proof that Diff0(M) is a perfect group, given a theorem of Herman on diffeomorphisms of the circle.

subject to the initial conditions A(l, 0) = 1, A(l, 1) ='2, with 4(n, /c) = 0 for & < 0 or k > n. This array has been called a Lucas triangle by Feinberg [1], because rising diagonals sum to give the Lucas numbers 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76, 123, 199, 322, ..., in contrast to the rising diagonals in the standard Pascal triangle where rising diagonals sum to give the Fibonacci numbers 1, 1, ...

De Paoli-Iseppi, R., Johansson, P., Menzies, A., Dias, K., Pupo, G., Kakavand, H., Wilmott, J., Mann, G., Hayward, N., Dinger, M., Long, G., Scolyer, R. (2016). Comparison of whole-exome sequencing of matched fresh and formalin fixed paraffin embedded melanoma tumours: implications for clinical decision making. Pathology, 48(3), 261-266. ...