Human infants, like immature members of any species, must be highly selective in sampling
information from their environment to learn efficiently. Failure to be selective would waste …

Background The effect of many contemporary chemotherapeutic drugs on pregnancy and
livebirth is not well established. We aimed to establish the effects of these drugs on …

Background—Clinic-based observational studies in men have reported that obstructive
sleep apnea is associated with an increased incidence of coronary heart disease. The …

INTRODUCTION Financial markets may collapse, rainforest can shift to savanna, a person
can become trapped in a depression, and the Gulf Stream can come to a standstill. Such …

Importance Prognosis is a venerable component of medical knowledge introduced by
Hippocrates (460-377 BC). This educational review presents a contemporary evidence …

Highly recommended by the Journal of Official Statistics, The American Statistician, and
other journals, Applied Survey Data Analysis, Second Edition provides an up-to-date …

The affect regulation model of binge eating, which posits that patients binge eat to reduce
negative affect (NA), has received support from cross-sectional and laboratory-based …

Background The main problem in many model-building situations is to choose from a large
set of covariates those that should be included in the" best" model. A decision to keep a …

In this text, author Scott Menard provides coverage of not only the basic logistic regression
model but also advanced topics found in no other logistic regression text. The book keeps …

Objectives Risk scores are recommended in guidelines to facilitate the management of
patients who present with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Internationally, such scores are …