Submitted: Apr 9, 2004; Revised: Jul 19, 2004; Accepted: Jul 19, 2004 Address for correspondence: Robert Diasio, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1824 6th Ave S, Wallace Tumor Institute, Room 620, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-3300 Fax: 205-975-5650; e-mail: [email protected]...

Control chart is the most important Statistical Process Control tool used to monitor reliability and performance of industrial processes. For monitoring changes in process dispersion, the R and S charts are widely used. These control charts perform better under the ideal assumption of normality but are well known to be very inefficient in presence of outliers or departures from normality. In th...

BACKGROUND Clear-cell carcinoma of the ovary (CCC) is often diagnosed at childbearing age, or sometimes during treatment for infertility. Therefore, most young women with early-stage CCC wish to preserve their reproductive and endocrine functions if possible. METHODS Clinicopathologic data collected under the central pathological review system were subjected to survival analyses. We analyzed ...

________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The distribution of chlorocholine chloride (CCC) residue or its metabolites in the meat and eggs of laying hens was studied using the N delta value (δN) and N atom % derived from N-CCC containing diets. In a completely randomised design, 20 laying hens were divided into four groups allocated four different...

Control chart techniques have been widely used in industries to monitor a process in quality improvement. Whenever we deal with variables data, we usually employ a combination of X-bar chart and R chart (or S chart) to monitor both the center and the spread of the process. In this paper, we propose a simple alternative, that is, we design a single chart to monitor both the center and the spread...

Introduction Conspiracy theories complicating public reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic inspired quantitative research on conspiracy theories, mostly using survey-based, correlational designs. Data from similar studies may, however, be unreliable due low temporal stability (Graham, 2021). Objectives We examine of a popular survey measure beliefs (CCBs). Methods CCBs were measured by set items de...

Non-autistic relatives of people with autistic disorder have an increased risk of social and communicative difficulties: this is known as the "broad phenotype." Better methods for characterizing the broad phenotype are needed to facilitate identification of risk genes for autism. 29 siblings of 20 children with autistic disorder, 13 siblings of 9 children with PDDNOS, and 46 typically developin...