In recent decades, global warming has contributed to an increase in the number and
intensity of wildfires destroying millions hectares of forest areas and causing many …

Objectives To evaluate construct validity, interpretability, reliability and responsiveness as
well as determination of cut-off points for good and poor health within the original English …

Objective To determine cutoff values for defining remission, minimal disease activity, and
parent and child acceptable symptom state in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) using the …

For medical decision making and patient information, predictions of future status variables
play an important role. Risk prediction models can be derived with many different statistical …

The scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment tool (PG-SGA), regarded as
the most appropriate means of identifying malnutrition in cancer patients, is often …

Objective To evaluate the performance of Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) in
detecting undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes among US adults by gender and race …

Evidence supports an important role for β-amyloid (Aβ) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's
disease (AD). Here, we investigate baseline levels of the 40-and 42-amino-acid-long Aβ …

As part of the peer review process for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
(EJCTS) and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS), a statistician …

Aim: The aim was to assess the performance of the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) in patients
recruited in a clinical trial with over the counter analgesics in headache. Methods: The …

As a diagnostic decision-making tool, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves provide
a comprehensive and visually attractive way to summarize the accuracy of predictions. They …