MATERIALS AND METHODS Study population. Eight individuals—two infants and six adults—
participated in the study. Six of these were members of two families, each consisting of a …

The article announces that a convention on Statistical and Epidemiological Methods for Oral
Health Research will be held July 14-15, 2006 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. The …

We used the hypothesis of mortality compression as a framework to examine patterns of
mortality from 1962 to 1984. Data from national vital statistics records were used for analysis …

Studies on the effects of the aging process on the physiological systems should ideally be
conducted on the same individual throughout its life span. But, in practice, the profile of an …

In an earlier article in this journal (Stockwell and Wicks, 1974), we presented a brief
description and analysis of the extent and pattern of digit preference and avoidance in the …

The following five outlines are the results to date of the Workshop held in Rockville,
Maryland, in January, 1990. The topics considered in these outlines are:(1) validation of …

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This study is the continuation of a long term project begun in 1938 (Duncan and Varner
1938) that was designed to show the relationship (over a period of at least fifty years) …

Method: Participants: Participants were 100" community-living" individuals in rural and urban
areas of a province in Atlantic Canada ranging in age from 17 to 95 years, who were divided …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the sampling frame as a determinant of
observed distributions of duration variables. A duration variable can be defined as the …