The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the degree of insight into illness is associated with long-term inpatient treatment outcome in chronic schizophrenia. Inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia were evaluated using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale and the Functional Skills Rating Form (FSRF) at baseline and at follow-up evaluation 1 year after treatment. The Sca...

The information inequality has been shown to be an effective tool for providing lower bounds for the minimax risk. Bounds based on the chisquare distance can sometimes offer a considerable improvement especially when applied iteratively. This paper compares these two methods in four examples including the bounded normal mean problem as well as obervations from a Poisson distribution.

The Chi square test is a statistical test which measures the association between two categorical variables. A working knowledge of tests of this nature are important for the chiropractor and osteopath in order to be able to critically appraise the literature.