PROC TTEST is an old reliable among SAS/STAT procedures, testing hypotheses about means of one and two normal samples. While this is a narrow class of analyses, it’s an important class, with key applications in all areas of science, including clinical trials. Recent updates to the TTEST procedure make it an even more powerful tool for the statistician. The enhancements include: • Equivalence te...

Methods Data of patients referred to School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata for suspected treatment failure (TF) was analyzed for the period of December2008 to November2013 to ascertain the positive predictive value (PPV) of immunologic and/or clinical parameter for confirming virologic failure (VF) and to observe the short term outcome of secondline treatment. Paired ttest was used for data anal...

This study aimed at monitoring the maxillary growth of children with cleft lip/palate in the first two years of life, and to evaluate the effects of primary surgeries on dental arch dimensions. The sample consisted of the three-dimensional digital models of 25 subjects with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and 29 subjects with isolated cleft palate (CP). Maxillary arch dimensions...

in the use of peer group data to assess individual, typical or best practice performance, the effective detection of outliers is critical for achieving useful results. in these ‘‘deterministic’’ frontier models, statistical theory is now mostly available. this paper deals with the statistical pared sample method and its capability of detecting outliers in data envelopment analysis. in the prese...

This research is a study on the objectives of mergers and acquisitions, as to why organizations undertake the inorganic mode of expansion. This particular research is conducted to get the effect of mergers upon financial performance regarding acquiring firms in a variety of manufacturing industries of Pakistan. Sample of this research consists of twelve manufacturing companies involved in the p...

INTRODUCTION Studies of obesity require the estimation of fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM); therefore it is important to validate methods that evaluate these measurements. OBJECTIVE We sought to compare two different bioelectrical impedance analysis systems (BIAs) to estimate FM and FFM using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as reference. METHODS We used a cross-sectional design....

The aims of this research are (1) to find out how apply infographics towards students' reading comprehension; (2) the effect using as learning media students‟ (3) respond use media. This method is quantitative with a pre-experimental design type one-group pretestposttest design. instruments in study were tests, questionnaires, and observations. test consists pretest, which before being given tr...

Many learners struggle to master reading skills. Hence, this study aimed test the effectiveness of Project EARES in addressing difficulties word recognition and comprehension among Grade 6 Tuhian Elementary School. This undertaking employed quantitative method. Meanwhile, quasiexperimental research design was utilized, specifically pretest-posttest, with a comparison group demonstrate causality...