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Current sample size conventions: Flaws, harms, and alternatives
Common conventions and expectations concerning sample size are deeply flawed, cause serious harm to the research process, and should be replaced by more rational alternatives.
Methods for Analyzing Panel Studies of Acute Health Effects of Air Pollution
New methods are presented for analyzing repeated binary health measurements of individuals exposed to varying levels of air pollution. The methods involve a separate logistic re...
Clarifying the role of impulsivity in bulimia nervosa
Abstract Objective With the goal of demonstrating that urgency impulsivity is associated with bulimic symptoms, not (lack of) planning impulsivity, the authors conducted two stu...
Developing optimal search strategies for detecting clinically relevant qualitative studies in MEDLINE.
Several search strategies can achieve high performance in retrieving qualitative studies from MEDLINE.
Silent latency periods in methylmercury poisoning and in neurodegenerative disease.
This article discusses three examples of delay (latency) in the appearance of signs and symptoms of poisoning after exposure to methylmercury. First, a case is presented of a 15...
Population Impact of Heart Failure and the Most Common Forms of Cancer
Background— The contemporary impact of heart failure (HF) versus the most common forms of cancer as reflected by related first-ever hospitalizations and subsequent case-fatality...
An analysis of efforts to scale up clean household energy for cooking around the world
Approximately 3 billion people, most of whom live in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, rely on solid fuels (i.e. wood, crop wastes, dung, charcoal) and kerosene for their cooking ...