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• A Bayesian destructive weighted Poisson cure rate model and an application to a cutaneous melanoma data  Academic Article
• A Comparative Analysis of the Financial Incentives of Two Distinct Experience-Rating Programs  Academic Article
• A Cost-Effectiveness Model Comparing Endovascular Repair to Open Surgical Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Canada  Academic Article
• A Land Use Regression Model for Predicting Ambient Concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada  Academic Article
• A MAP-Based Image Interpolation Method via Viterbi Decoding of Markov Chains of Interpolation Functions  Academic Article
• A Method for Detecting Positive Growth Autocorrelation without Marking Individuals  Academic Article
• A New Class of Robust Two-Sample Wald-Type Tests  Academic Article
• A New Visual Rating Scale to Assess Strategic White Matter Hyperintensities Within Cholinergic Pathways in Dementia  Academic Article
• A Rasch analysis of the Brief Pain Inventory Interference subscale reveals three dimensions and an age bias  Academic Article
• A Second-Order Simulation Model of the Cost-Effectiveness of Managing Dyspepsia in the United States  Academic Article
• A Time Trade-off-derived Value Set of the EQ-5D-5L for Canada  Academic Article
• A behavioral economic measure of demand for alcohol predicts brief intervention outcomes  Academic Article
• A brief 5-item version of the Neck Disability Index shows good psychometric properties  Academic Article
• A century of transitions in New York City's measles dynamics  Academic Article
• A community health case for psychiatric care: A cross-sectional study of county health rankings  Academic Article
• A comparison of all-subset Cox and accelerated failure time models with Cox step-wise regression for node-positive breast cancer  Academic Article
• A comparison of four risk models for the prediction of cardiovascular complications in patients with a history of atrial fibrillation undergoing non‐cardiac surgery  Academic Article
• A comparison of multivariable mathematical methods for predicting survival-I. Introduction, rationale, and general strategy  Academic Article
• A comparison of multivariable mathematical methods for predicting survival-III. Accuracy of predictions in generating and challenge sets  Academic Article
• A comparison of multivariable mathematical methods for predicting survival—II. Statistical selection of prognostic variables  Academic Article
• A comparison of spiking experiments to estimate the detection proportion of qualitative microbiological methods  Academic Article
• A comparison of statistical methods for combining relative bioactivities from parallel line bioassays  Academic Article
• A descriptive analysis of the spatio-temporal distribution of enteric diseases in New Brunswick, Canada  Academic Article
• A geometric confidence ellipse approach to the estimation of the ratio of two variables  Academic Article
• A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of selection from a phylogeny  Academic Article
• A method detection limit for potentialin vivoarsenic measurements with a 50 W x-ray tube  Academic Article
• A method to estimate the contribution of regional genetic associations to complex traits from summary association statistics  Academic Article
• A multicenter mortality prediction model for patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation*  Academic Article
• A multivariate model for predicting mortality in patients with heart failure and systolic dysfunction  Academic Article
• A parameterized, continuum electrostatic model for predicting protein pK a values  Academic Article
• A penalized algorithm for event-specific rate models for recurrent events  Academic Article
• A probabilistic cost-effectiveness analysis of enoxaparin versus unfractionated heparin for the prophylaxis of deep-vein thrombosis following major trauma.  Academic Article
• A probit- log- skew-normal mixture model for repeated measures data with excess zeros, with application to a cohort study of paediatric respiratory symptoms  Academic Article
• A semimechanistic-physiologic population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model for neutropenia following pemetrexed therapy  Academic Article
• A steady-state, population-based model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of pneumococcal vaccines  Academic Article
• A stochastic approach to risk management for prostate cancer patients on active surveillance  Academic Article
• A systematic assessment of the use of opponent variables, data subsetting and hierarchical specification in two-party crash severity analysis  Academic Article
• A systematic survey of the methods literature on the reporting quality and optimal methods of handling participants with missing outcome data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Acupuncture reveals no specific effect on primary auditory cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study  Academic Article
• Adaptations for finding irregularly shaped disease clusters  Academic Article
• Adaptive stereo medical image watermarking using non-corresponding blocks  Academic Article
• Admissions File Review  Academic Article
• Although not consistently superior, the absolute approach to framing the minimally important difference has advantages over the relative approach  Academic Article
• An Exact Control-Versus-Treatment Comparison Test Based on Ranked Set Samples  Academic Article
• An empirical model of electronic portal imager response implemented within a commercial treatment planning system for verification of intensity-modulated radiation therapy fields.  Academic Article
• Analysis and Parametric Optimization of1H Off-Resonance Relaxation NMR Experiments Designed to Map Polypeptide Self-Recognition and Other Noncovalent Interactions  Academic Article
• Analysis of Health Utility Data When Some Subjects Attain the Upper Bound of 1: Are Tobit and CLAD Models Appropriate?  Academic Article
• Analysis of a nonsusceptible fraction with current status data  Academic Article
• Androgen Receptors in Prostatic Tissue: Evaluation of Systematic Errors and Comparison of Three Procedures to Correct for Nonspecific Binding Sites in the Binding Assays  Academic Article
• Annual visits to GPs by elderly patients.  Academic Article
• Anomalous Diffusion of Proteins Due to Molecular Crowding  Academic Article
• Anti-PF4/heparin antibody formation postorthopedic surgery thromboprophylaxis: the role of non-drug risk factors and evidence for a stoichiometry-based model of immunization  Academic Article
• Application of Parallel Factor Analysis for Time-Resolved Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Implication for Metal Speciation Study  Academic Article
• Arthroplasty versus internal fixation of femoral neck fractures: a clinical decision analysis.  Academic Article
• Assessing spatial patterns in disease rates  Academic Article
• Assessing the continuum between temperament and affective illness: psychiatric and mathematical perspectives  Academic Article
• Assessment of priority for coronary revascularisation procedures  Academic Article
• Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data  Academic Article
• Association of Depression With Accelerated Cognitive Decline Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the ACCORD-MIND Trial  Academic Article
• Associations between model-predicted rivaroxaban exposure and patient characteristics and efficacy and safety outcomes in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation  Academic Article
• Associations between model-predicted rivaroxaban exposure and patient characteristics and efficacy and safety outcomes in the prevention of venous thromboembolism  Academic Article
• Associations between model-predicted rivaroxaban exposure and patient characteristics and efficacy and safety outcomes in the treatment of venous thromboembolism  Academic Article
• At odds with ratios  Academic Article
• Attributable Risk in Practice  Academic Article
• Autism spectrum disorders and fetal hypoxia in a population-based cohort: Accounting for missing exposures via Estimation-Maximization algorithm  Academic Article
• Averaging of nonlinearity-managed pulses  Academic Article
• Awareness-driven behavior changes can shift the shape of epidemics away from peaks and toward plateaus, shoulders, and oscillations  Academic Article
• Bayesian Hierarchical Models Combining Different Study Types and Adjusting for Covariate Imbalances: A Simulation Study to Assess Model Performance  Academic Article
• Bayesian cure rate models induced by frailty in survival analysis  Academic Article
• Bayesian methods for meta-analysis of causal relationships estimated using genetic instrumental variables  Academic Article
• Benefit-risk ratios in the assessment of the clinical evidence of a new therapy  Academic Article
• Benefits for Plants in Ant-Plant Protective Mutualisms: A Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the multiple problems of multiplicity—whether and how to correct for many statistical tests  Academic Article
• Bias-corrected estimator for intraclass correlation coefficient in the balanced one-way random effects model  Academic Article
• Bilateral vs. ipsilateral venography as the primary efficacy outcome measure in thromboprophylaxis clinical trials: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Biomarkers of inflammation, fibrosis, cardiac stretch and injury predict death but not renal replacement therapy at 1 year in a Canadian chronic kidney disease cohort  Academic Article
• Biopsychosocial Multivariate Predictive Model of Occupational Low Back Disability  Academic Article
• Bivariate evaluation of thromboembolism and bleeding in clinical trials of anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation  Academic Article
• Bivariate random-effects meta-analysis models for diagnostic test accuracy studies using arcsine-based transformations  Academic Article
• Brain iron detected by SWI high pass filtered phase calibrated with synchrotron X-ray fluorescence  Academic Article
• C-statistic: A brief explanation of its construction, interpretation and limitations  Academic Article
• Calculating the uncertainty in lead concentration forin vivobone lead x-ray fluorescence  Academic Article
• Canadian Prediction Equations of Spirometric Lung Function for Caucasian Adults 20 to 90 Years of Age: Results from the Canadian Obstructive Lung Disease (COLD) Study and the Lung Health Canadian Environment (LHCE) Study  Academic Article
• Capture-mark-recapture as a tool for estimating the number of articles available for systematic reviews in critical care medicine  Academic Article
• Capture-mark-recapture to estimate the number of missed articles for systematic reviews in surgery  Academic Article
• Capturing the state transitions of seizure-like events using Hidden Markov models  Academic Article
• Carotid Atherosclerosis and a Reduced Likelihood for Lowered Cognitive Performance in a Canadian First Nations Population  Academic Article
• Central statistical monitoring: Detecting fraud in clinical trials  Academic Article
• Cerebral microbleeds and risk of incident dementia: the Framingham Heart Study  Academic Article
• Chaos and biological complexity in measles dynamics  Academic Article
• Chaos and complexity in measles models: A comparative numerical study  Academic Article
• Charging for health care: Evidence on the utilisation of NHS prescribed drugs  Academic Article
• Choice of effect measure for epidemiological data  Academic Article
• Choice of therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with metformin and a sulphonylurea: a systematic review and mixed-treatment comparison meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Cholera Epidemic in Haiti, 2010: Using a Transmission Model to Explain Spatial Spread of Disease and Identify Optimal Control Interventions  Academic Article
• Classification and perceived similarity of compound gratings that differ in relative spatial phase  Academic Article
• Clinical Models to Compare the Safety and Efficacy of Inhaled Corticosteroids in Patients with Asthma  Academic Article
• Clinical application of a semimechanistic-physiologic population PK/PD model for neutropenia following pemetrexed therapy  Academic Article
• Closed-Form Confidence Intervals on Measures of Precision for An Interlaboratory Study  Academic Article
• Co-operation between Polymerases and Nucleotide Synthetases in the RNA World  Academic Article
• Colorectal cancer screening with faecal immunochemical testing, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy: a microsimulation modelling study  Academic Article
• Combined Statistical Analyses for Long-Term Stability Data with Multiple Storage Conditions: A Simulation Study  Academic Article
• Combining endogenous and exogenous spatial variability in analytical population models  Academic Article
• Commentary on the dual‐vision method for analysis of agreement data  Academic Article
• Comparative Effectiveness of Mycophenolate Mofetil for the Treatment of Juvenile-Onset Proliferative Lupus Nephritis  Academic Article
• Comparative efficacy of golimumab, infliximab, and adalimumab for moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis: a network meta-analysis accounting for differences in trial designs  Academic Article
• Comparison of Standardization Methods for the Harmonization of Phenotype Data: An Application to Cognitive Measures  Academic Article
• Comparison of generalized estimating equations and quadratic inference functions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) database  Academic Article
• Comparison of multiple estimates of efficacy for influenza vaccine  Academic Article
• Comparison of noninvasive photodynamic therapy dosimetry methods using a dynamic model of ALA-PDT of human skin  Academic Article
• Comparison of population-averaged and cluster-specific models for the analysis of cluster randomized trials with missing binary outcomes: a simulation study  Academic Article
• Comparison of the ability of double-robust estimators to correct bias in propensity score matching analysis. A Monte Carlo simulation study  Academic Article
• Compensatory neutral mutations and the evolution of RNA.  Academic Article
• Compliance with clinical guidelines for whiplash improved with a targeted implementation strategy: a prospective cohort study  Academic Article
• Computationally estimated apolipoproteins B and A1 in predicting cardiovascular risk  Academic Article
• Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program  Academic Article
• Confidence intervals for intraclass correlation coefficients in a nonlinear dose-response meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Consequential rather than ‘significant’ results  Academic Article
• Context quantization by kernel Fisher discriminant  Academic Article
• Continued transplant immunosuppression may prolong survival after return to peritoneal dialysis: Results of a decision analysis  Academic Article
• Contributions of Speed and Accuracy to Translational Selection in Bacteria  Academic Article
• Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies. Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals  Academic Article
• Correlating brain blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) fractal dimension mapping with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in Alzheimer’s disease  Academic Article
• Cost Avoidance Associated With Optimal Stroke Care in Canada  Academic Article
• Cost Effectiveness of Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation Versus Escalation of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy  Academic Article
• Cost-Effectiveness of Ventricular Assist Device Therapy as a Bridge to Transplantation Compared With Nonbridged Cardiac Recipients  Academic Article
• Cost-effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori eradication for the long-term management of duodenal ulcer in Canada  Academic Article
• Cost-effectiveness of a Transplantation Strategy Compared to Melphalan and Prednisone in Younger Patients with Multiple Myeloma  Academic Article
• Cost-effectiveness of interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using an Ontario policy model.  Academic Article
• Crossover trials with a cumulative response  Academic Article
• Cure rate modelling  Academic Article
• Days alive and out of hospital and the patient journey in patients with heart failure: Insights from the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) program  Academic Article
• Decision aids for localized prostate cancer treatment choice: Systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Demand and level of service inflation in Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods  Academic Article
• Derivation and Validation of the Detection of Indicators and Vulnerabilities for Emergency Room Trips Scale for Classifying the Risk of Emergency Department Use in Frail Community-Dwelling Older Adults  Academic Article
• Designing Programs for Eliminating Canine Rabies from Islands: Bali, Indonesia as a Case Study  Academic Article
• Designing and Analyzing Clinical Trials with Composite Outcomes: Consideration of Possible Treatment Differences between the Individual Outcomes  Academic Article
• Destructive weighted Poisson cure rate models  Academic Article
• Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006–2011  Academic Article
• Determinants of Physical Activity Among People with Spinal Cord Injury: A Test of Social Cognitive Theory  Academic Article
• Determinants of time trade-off valuations for EQ-5D-5L health states: data from the Canadian EQ-5D-5L valuation study  Academic Article
• Determining optimal sample sizes for multistage adaptive randomized clinical trials from an industry perspective using value of information methods  Academic Article
• Determining relative importance of variables in developing and validating predictive models  Academic Article
• Development and Validation of a Risk Scoring Tool to Predict Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalization in Premature Infants Born at 33 through 35 Completed Weeks of Gestation  Academic Article
• Development and qualification of the parallel line model for the estimation of human influenza haemagglutinin content using the single radial immunodiffusion assay  Academic Article
• Diagnosing Tests: Using and Misusing Diagnostic and Screening Tests  Academic Article
• Dichotomising dangers  Academic Article
• Discrimination and Calibration of Clinical Prediction Models  Academic Article
• Dissociation of response inhibition and performance monitoring in the stop signal task using event-related fMRI  Academic Article
• Distinction of brain tissue, low grade and high grade glioma with time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy  Academic Article
• Do socioeconomic characteristics modify the short term association between air pollution and mortality? Evidence from a zonal time series in Hamilton, Canada  Academic Article
• Does Prevalence Matter to Physicians in Estimating Post-test Probability of Disease? A Randomized Trial  Academic Article
• Does genetic introgression improve female reproductive performance? A test on the endangered Florida panther  Academic Article
• Does needle rotation improve lesion targeting?  Academic Article
• Dose measurement based on spectral chi-square minimization using GAFchromic MD-55 film  Academic Article
• Dosimetric properties of the new 125I BrachySeed™ model LS-1 source  Academic Article
• Double-adjustment in propensity score matching analysis: choosing a threshold for considering residual imbalance  Academic Article
• Dynamical theory of spin relaxation  Academic Article
• Dynamics of Social Behavior in Fruit Fly Larvae  Academic Article
• Economic evaluation of nivolumab for the treatment of second-line advanced squamous NSCLC in Canada: a comparison of modeling approaches to estimate and extrapolate survival outcomes  Academic Article
• Effect of exposure misclassification on the mean squared error of population attributable risk and prevented fraction estimates  Academic Article
• Effect of fructose on postprandial triglycerides: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled feeding trials  Academic Article
• Effect of incentive payments on chronic disease management and health services use in British Columbia, Canada: Interrupted time series analysis  Academic Article
• Effect of1O2quencher depletion on the efficiency of photodynamic therapy  Academic Article
• Effects of Sample Size on Estimates of Population Growth Rates Calculated with Matrix Models  Academic Article
• Effects of colonization asymmetries on metapopulation persistence  Academic Article
• Effects of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic test performance  Academic Article
• Effects of dietary calcium supplementation on blood pressure. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Efficacy of bisphosphonates in the management of skeletal complications of bone metastases and selection of clinical endpoints.  Academic Article
• Empirical comparison of methods for analyzing multiple time-to-event outcomes in a non-inferiority trial: a breast cancer study  Academic Article
• Empirically Based Composite Fracture Prediction Model From the Global Longitudinal Study of Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women (GLOW)  Academic Article
• Enhancing hip fracture risk prediction by statistical modeling and texture analysis on DXA images  Academic Article
• Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH): An Ecometric Assessment of Measures of the Community Environment Based on Individual Perception  Academic Article
• Epidemiological effects of seasonal oscillations in birth rates  Academic Article
• Equitable access to health care: Methodological extensions to the analysis of physician utilization in Canada  Academic Article
• Establishing a baseline phase behavior in magnetic resonance imaging to determine normal vs. abnormal iron content in the brain  Academic Article
• Establishing a protocol for building a pan-Canadian population-based monitoring system for early childhood development for children with health disorders: Canadian Children’s Health in Context Study (CCHICS)  Academic Article
• Estimation of Operating Characteristics for Dependent Diagnostic Tests Based on Latent Markov Models  Academic Article
• Estimation of Relative and Absolute Test Accuracy  Academic Article
• Estimation of Test Sensitivity and Specificity When Disease Confirmation Is Limited to Positive Results  Academic Article
• Estimation of cholesterol sulphate in blood plasma and in erythrocyte membranes from individuals with Down's syndrome or diabetes mellitus type I  Academic Article
• Estimation of the limit of detection for quantal response bioassays  Academic Article
• Examining the Role of Amenable Mortality as an Indicator of Health System Effectiveness  Academic Article
• Exchanging and using research evidence in health policy networks: a statistical network analysis  Academic Article
• Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Box–Cox Transformation Cure Rate Model and Assessment of Model Misspecification Under Weibull Lifetimes  Academic Article
• Exploring the limitations of age-based models for health care planning  Academic Article
• External validation of the Revised Cardiac Risk Index and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Arrest calculator in noncardiac vascular surgery  Academic Article
• Fast estimation of time-varying infectious disease transmission rates  Academic Article
• Fetal Tracheal Occlusion in Lambs with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Role of Exogenous Surfactant at Birth  Academic Article
• Filtering Genes for Cluster and Network Analysis  Academic Article
• Finding Our Way: An Introduction to Path Analysis  Academic Article
• Fluctuation domains in adaptive evolution  Academic Article
• Fractional Simplex Designs for Interaction Screening in Complex Mixtures  Academic Article
• Further thoughts on the importance of models in the assessment of clinical evidence  Academic Article
• Generalized gamma frailty model  Academic Article
• Geographical variations in the correlates of blood donor turnout rates: An investigation of Canadian metropolitan areas  Academic Article
• Getting more out of meta-analyses: a new approach to meta-analysis in light of unexplained heterogeneity  Academic Article
• Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level  Academic Article
• Global mortality variations in patients with heart failure: results from the International Congestive Heart Failure (INTER-CHF) prospective cohort study  Academic Article
• Global, regional, and national age–sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013  Academic Article
• Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013  Academic Article
• Going North on a North-Bound Trail: A Model for Achieving Health Management Goals and Objectives  Academic Article
• HIV Sexual Transmission Is Predominantly Driven by Single Individuals Rather than Discordant Couples: A Model-Based Approach  Academic Article
• Haemoglobin oxygenation of a two-layer tissue-simulating phantom from time-resolved reflectance: effect of top layer thickness  Academic Article
• Handling Regional Variation in Health State Preferences within a Country  Academic Article
• Harmonization of reimbursement and regulatory approval processes: a systematic review of international experiences  Academic Article
• Hepatitis B virus screening before adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early-stage breast cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis  Academic Article
• Hidden semi-Markov models reveal multiphasic movement of the endangered Florida panther  Academic Article
• High statistical heterogeneity is more frequent in meta-analysis of continuous than binary outcomes  Academic Article
• Homogeneity/Heterogeneity Hypotheses for Standardized Mortality Ratios Based on Minimum Power-divergence Estimators  Academic Article
• How to Make Epidemiological Training Infectious  Academic Article
• How well are journal and clinical article characteristics associated with the journal impact factor? a retrospective cohort study  Academic Article
• IL-9 enhances growth of ICC, maintains network structure and strengthens rhythmicity of contraction in culture  Academic Article
• IScore  Academic Article
• Identifying a clinical signature of suicidality among patients with mood disorders: A pilot study using a machine learning approach  Academic Article
• Identifying subpopulations for subgroup analysis in a longitudinal clinical trial  Academic Article
• Image Interpolation by Adaptive 2-D Autoregressive Modeling and Soft-Decision Estimation  Conference Paper
• Impact of Diabetes on Long-Term Prognosis in Patients With Unstable Angina and Non–Q-Wave Myocardial Infarction  Academic Article
• Implementation Issues in Approximate Methods for Stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley Models  Academic Article
• Implicit Learning in 3D Object Recognition: The Importance of Temporal Context  Academic Article
• Imprecise singing is widespread  Academic Article
• Imputing variance estimates do not alter the conclusions of a meta-analysis with continuous outcomes: a case study of changes in renal function after living kidney donation  Academic Article
• Incorporating Immunological Ideas in Epidemiological Models  Academic Article
• Incorrect Use of the Student t Test in Randomized Trials of Bilateral Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Patients  Academic Article
• Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs): The silence of the lambda  Academic Article
• Incremental net benefit in randomized clinical trials  Academic Article
• Incremental net benefit in randomized clinical trials with quality-adjusted survival  Academic Article
• Inference on cancer screening exam accuracy using population-level administrative data  Academic Article
• Integrative analysis of multiple gene expression profiles with quality-adjusted effect size models  Academic Article
• Intention to treat analysis in clinical trials when there are missing data  Academic Article
• Interval estimation and optimal design for the within-subject coefficient of variation for continuous and binary variables  Academic Article
• Invited Commentary  Academic Article
• Is the Give Youth a Voice questionnaire an appropriate measure of teen-centred care in paediatric oncology: a Rasch measurement theory analysis  Academic Article
• Is there an optimal degree of acid suppression for healing of duodenal ulcers?  Academic Article
• Issues of Cost and Efficiency in the Design of Reliability Studies  Academic Article
• Joint incorporation of randomised and observational evidence in estimating treatment effects  Academic Article
• Kidney Function Endpoints in Kidney Transplant Trials: A Struggle for Power  Academic Article
• Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate  Academic Article
• Laryngoscopic Intubation  Academic Article
• Latent variable mixture models to test for differential item functioning: a population-based analysis  Academic Article
• Latent variable models for harmonization of test scores: A case study on memory  Academic Article
• Learning hierarchical models: advice for the rest of us  Academic Article
• Lidocaine Gel for Urethral Catheterization in Children: A Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Likelihood inference for COM-Poisson cure rate model with interval-censored data and Weibull lifetimes  Academic Article
• Linking Oppositional Behaviour Trajectories to the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Childhood  Academic Article
• Lipopolysaccharide, a Key Molecule Involved in the Synergism between Temporins in Inhibiting Bacterial Growth and in Endotoxin Neutralization  Academic Article
• Liver segmentation using location and intensity probabilistic atlases  Academic Article
• Long-term cognitive trajectories and heterogeneity in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected siblings  Academic Article
• Longitudinal Links Between Childhood Peer Victimization, Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Academic Functioning: Developmental Cascades  Academic Article
• Longitudinal examination of objectively-measured physical activity and sedentary time among children with and without significant movement impairments  Academic Article
• Lossless compression of color mosaic images  Academic Article
• MAgnitude and PHase Thresholding (MAPHT) of noisy complex-valued magnetic resonance images  Academic Article
• Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17  Academic Article
• Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17  Academic Article
• Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Ratings of Emotional Disorder Symptoms in Children and Adolescents  Academic Article
• Measurement properties of painDETECT: Rasch analysis of responses from community-dwelling adults with neuropathic pain  Academic Article
• Meta‐analysis of quantile intervals from different studies with an application to a pulmonary tuberculosis data  Academic Article
• Methodological issues in assessing reproducibility—A comparative study of various indices of reproducibility applied to repeat ELISA serologic tests for Lyme disease  Academic Article
• Methodology of the Global and Regional Burden of Stroke Study  Academic Article
• Methods for shortening patient-reported outcome measures  Academic Article
• Methods of competing risks flexible parametric modeling for estimation of the risk of the first disease among HIV infected men  Academic Article
• Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Polymorphisms and Homocysteine-Lowering Effect of Vitamin Therapy in Singaporean Stroke Patients  Academic Article
• Missing data in longitudinal studies: cross-sectional multiple imputation provides similar estimates to full-information maximum likelihood  Academic Article
• Mixtures of multivariate power exponential distributions  Academic Article
• Model-Based Deformable Registration of Preoperative 3D to Intraoperative Low-Resolution 3D and 2D Sequences of MR Images  Academic Article
• Modeling Transmission of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus AureusAmong Patients Admitted to a Hospital  Conference Paper
• Modeling and design of nano-plasmonic structures using transmission line modeling  Academic Article
• Modeling bacterial clearance using stochastic-differential equations  Academic Article
• Modeling improvements in booster seat use: A discrete choice conjoint experiment  Academic Article
• Modeling the Impact of Subclinical Measles Transmission in Vaccinated Populations with Waning Immunity  Academic Article
• Modelling the Age Dynamics of Chronic Health Conditions: Life-Table-Consistent Transition Probabilities and their Application  Academic Article
• Modelling the Community as a Determinant of Health  Academic Article
• Modelling the population health impact of musculoskeletal diseases: arthritis.  Academic Article
• Modified Personal Interviews  Academic Article
• Monte Carlo investigation of the dosimetric properties of the new 103PdBrachySeed™Pd-103 Model Pd-1 source  Academic Article
• Multiattribute Utility Function for a Comprehensive Health Status Classification System  Academic Article
• Multiattribute and Single-Attribute Utility Functions for the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 System  Academic Article
• Multilevel health promotion research: conceptual and analytical considerations.  Academic Article
• Multiple hypotheses testing  Academic Article
• Multivariable fractional polynomial interaction to investigate continuous effect modifiers in a meta-analysis on higher versus lower PEEP for patients with ARDS  Academic Article
• Natural Progression of Symptom Change and Recovery From Concussion in a Pediatric Population  Academic Article
• Natural Selection for Nucleotide Usage at Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Sites in Influenza A Virus Genes  Academic Article
• Neonatal seizure detection using blind distributed detection with correlated decisions  Academic Article
• Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as predictor of mortality and morbidity in cardiovascular surgery: a systematic review  Academic Article
• New robust statistical procedures for the polytomous logistic regression models  Academic Article
• Noise in polymer gel measurements using MRI  Academic Article
• Normative comparison standards for measures of cognition in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): Does applying sample weights make a difference?  Academic Article
• Observer agreement paradoxes in 2x2 tables: comparison of agreement measures  Academic Article
• Official Positions for FRAX® Clinical Regarding Glucocorticoids: The Impact of the Use of Glucocorticoids on the Estimate by FRAX® of the 10 Year Risk of Fracture  Academic Article
• On Rate-Distortion Models for Natural Images and Wavelet Coding Performance  Academic Article
• On State-Space Reduction in Multi-Strain Pathogen Models, with an Application to Antigenic Drift in Influenza A  Academic Article
• On a class of non‐linear transformation cure rate models  Academic Article
• On estimating processing variance: Commentary and reanalysis of Kail's “developmental functions for speeds of cognitive processes”  Academic Article
• On the Use of Location and Occupancy Factors for Estimating External Exposure From Deposited Radionuclides  Academic Article
• On the probability of cost-effectiveness using data from randomized clinical trials  Academic Article
• One Way Out? A Multistate Transition Model of Outcomes After Nursing Home Admission  Academic Article
• Online clustering algorithms for radar emitter classification  Academic Article
• Optimal Context Quantization in Lossless Compression of Image Data Sequences  Academic Article
• Optimal Land Use Management for Soil Erosion Control by Using an Interval-Parameter Fuzzy Two-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach  Academic Article
• Optimal allocation of participants for the estimation of selection, preference and treatment effects in the two-stage randomised trial design  Academic Article
• Optimal methods for calculating classification images: Weighted sums  Academic Article
• Optimal sampling in derivation studies was associated with improved discrimination in external validation for heart failure prognostic models  Academic Article
• Optimal unidirectional switch designs  Academic Article
• Optimized sampling patterns for multidimensional T2 experiments  Academic Article
• Outcome Trajectories among Homeless Individuals with Mental Disorders in a Multisite Randomised Controlled Trial of Housing First  Academic Article
• P Values and Confidence Intervals  Academic Article
• Parsimonious mixtures of multivariate contaminated normal distributions  Academic Article
• Path Analysis of Factors for Delayed Healing and Nonunion in 416 Operatively Treated Tibial Shaft Fractures  Academic Article
• Path analysis of the chronicity of depression using the comprehensive developmental model framework  Academic Article
• Perceptual and Model-Based Evaluation of Ideal Time-Frequency Noise Reduction in Hearing-Impaired Listeners  Academic Article
• Performance of the dynamic single photon emission computed tomography (dSPECT) method for decreasing or increasing activity changes  Academic Article
• Persistent Organic Pollutants in Norwegian Men from 1979 to 2007: Intraindividual Changes, Age–Period–Cohort Effects, and Model Predictions  Academic Article
• Personality correlates of pathological gambling derived from Big Three and Big Five personalitymodels  Academic Article
• Physicochemical properties and in vitro digestibility of flour and starch from pea (Pisum sativum L.) cultivars  Academic Article
• Physiologically based modeling of lead kinetics: a pilot study using data from a Canadian population  Academic Article
• Physiotherapy Coupled With Dextroamphetamine for Rehabilitation After Hemiparetic Stroke  Academic Article
• Population dynamics of live-attenuated virus vaccines  Academic Article
• Population-based modeling of the progression of apoptosis in mammalian cell culture  Academic Article
• Potential net clinical benefit of population-wide implementation of apixaban and dabigatran among European patients with atrial fibrillation  Academic Article
• Potential risk factors associated with human encephalitis: application of canonical correlation analysis  Academic Article
• Power function arguments in support of an alternative approach for analyzing management trials  Academic Article
• Power of statistical tests  Academic Article
• Practical Model-Based Dose Finding in Early-Phase Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Pre- and Postnatal Women's Leisure Time Physical Activity Patterns: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis  Academic Article
• Pre-pregnancy maternal overweight and obesity increase the risk for affective disorders in offspring  Academic Article
• Predicting Change in an Integrated Dual Diagnosis Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program  Academic Article
• Predicting Successful Arteriovenous Fistula Creation  Academic Article
• Prediction of bleeding events in patients with venous thromboembolism on stable anticoagulation treatment  Academic Article
• Prediction of excess pregnancy weight gain using psychological, physical, and social predictors: A validated model in a prospective cohort study  Academic Article
• Prediction of homoprotein and heteroprotein complexes by protein docking and template‐based modeling: A CASP‐CAPRI experiment  Academic Article
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