(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health have found that no adjustment method fully resolves confounding by indication ...

Researchers have found that no adjustment method fully resolves confounding by indication in observational studies, meaning when the validity of a study is threatened by unmeasured confounding, it is ...

Christina Majaski writes and edits finance, credit cards, and travel content. She has 14+ years of experience with print and digital publications. A seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique ...

It is often appropriately assumed, based on both theoretical and empirical considerations, that airborne exposures in the workplace are lognormally distributed, and that a worker's mean exposure over ...

We propose a simple adjustment for profile likelihoods. The aim of the adjustment is to alleviate some of the problems inherent in the use of profile likelihoods, such as bias, inconsistency and ...

Electronic health record (EHR)-based comorbidity assessment had low sensitivity for identifying major comorbidities and poorly predicted survival. EHR-based comorbidity data require validation prior ...

The Labor Department is switching to a new method to seasonally adjust its weekly jobless claims figures that could result in a sharply lower claims totals. Initial claims – a rough measure of layoffs ...

Historically, public opinion surveys have relied on the ability to adjust their datasets using a core set of demographics – sex, age, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, and geographic region ...