Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was tracheal injury score, assessed via fibreoptic bronchoscopy for hyperaemia, ischaemia, ulcers and perforation. Lesions were classified as ...

A previous study demonstrated that power against the (unobserved) true effect for the primary end point (PEP) of most phase III oncology trials is low, suggesting an increased risk of false-negative ...

Overview Regression explains how changes in one factor influence another with clarity.Each regression type is suited for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Inference based on the partial envelope model is variational or non-equivariant under rescaling of the responses, and tends to restrict its ...

Objectives This study uses nationally representative survey data from the USA to estimate the relationship between a history of heart attack or stroke with the prevalence of mental health symptoms.

An analysis of patient responses to the CITAS and RINVR identified factors associated with taste alteration in patients with cancer treated with cisplatin.

We consider the problem of nonparametric regression when the covariate is d dimensional, where d ≥ 1. In this paper, we introduce and study two non-parametric least squares estimators (LSEs) in this ...