Objective.—To determine prevalence of dementia and its subtypes in Japanese-American
men and compare these findings with rates reported for populations in Japan and …

Precision of the estimate of the population mean using ranked set sample (RSS) relative to
using simple random sample (SRS), with the same number of quantified units, depends …

Although social stressors have successfully predicted depressive symptomatology in a
number of populations, few studies have examined the relevance of stressors for Mexican …

Logistic distribution is very widely used in modeling real life problems in different fields of
study, particularly in the area of reliability. In this study, we propose different estimators for …

In this paper we consider three measures of overlap, namely Matusia's measure ρ, Morisita's
measure λ and Weitzman's measure Δ. These measures are usually used in quantitative …

This review offers first-hand experience with four quite diverse community-oriented primary
care practices (COPC). However diverse, all were academically nurtured but not directly" …

We investigated the accuracy of self-report of hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction
(MI) by elderly persons in a community-based prospective study. Among 3809 persons aged …

Abstract Collings and Hamilton (1988), described a uniform bootstrap method that is applied
on observed or pilot data in order to approximate the power of the two‐sample Wilcoxon test …

Health-related research and clinical management efforts only recently have begun to
recognize gender differences. Women live longer than men, but are more likely to …

Purpose. The purpose of this descriptive study was to develop a statement of the
gerontological content essential for the associate degree level of nursing education. The …