Vol. 16 No. 4 (2019)

Published: 2022-01-27

Editorial

Machine learning in clinical and epidemiological research: isn't it time for biostatisticians to work on it?

Danila Azzolina, Ileana Baldi (University of Padova), Giulia Barbati, Paola Berchialla, Daniele Bottigliengo, Andrea Bucci, Stefano Calza , Pasquale Dolce, Valeria Edefonti , Andrea Faragalli (, Giovanni Fiorito, Ilaria Gandin , Fabiola Giudici , Dario Gregori, Caterina Gregorio , Francesca Ieva, Corrado Lanera, Giulia Lorenzoni, Michele Marchioni, Alberto Milanese , Andrea Ricotti, Veronica Sciannameo , Giuliana Solinas , Marika Vezzoli
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Original articles

Determinants of vitamin D deficiency among Bangladeshi children: A hospital based case-control study

Mohammad DH Hawlader, Sanjana Zaman, Moshiur Rahman, Mohammad NM Khan, Aazia Hossain, Gias U Ahsan
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Register-based cumulative prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders during childhood and adolescence in Central Italy

Marco Valenti, Roberto Vagnetti, Francesco Masedu, Maria Chiara Pino, Alessandro Rossi, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Monica Mazza, EAGLE GROUP
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Categorical Frailty Phenotype and Continuous Frailty Index: A Conceptual Overview of Frailty and Its Components among Older Persons in India

Ankit Anand, T.S. Syamala, Md Illias Kanchan Sk
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Improving Homecare Risk Management and Patient Safety

Enrico Lauta, Crescenza Abbinante, Lorenza Maiellaro, Ruggiero Rizzi, Pietro Dormio, Vincenzo Defilippis
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Assessing Persistence in Spatial Clustering of Disease, with an Application to Drug Related Deaths in Scottish Neighbourhoods

Peter Douglas Congdon
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CD4 Count Progression of Adult HIV Patients Under Art Follow Up At Mekelle General Hospital, Tigray Region: A Longitudinal Data Analysis Approach

Hagazi Gebre Meles, Haftom Temesgen, Mussie Alemayehu
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New opportunities in Haemophilia treatment: Efmoroctocog Alfa for patients with Haemophilia A

Giovanna Elisa Calabrò, Giancarlo Castaman, Giovanni Di Minno, Silvia Coretti, Filippo Rumi, Jovana Stojanovic, Dario Sacchini, Carlo Favaretti, Americo Cicchetti
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Systematic reviews and meta- and pooled analyses

Task shifting to enhanced physical therapy in musculoskeletal secondary care. An evidence-based narrative review

Federico Pennestrì, Giuseppe Banfi
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Biostatistics

Discovering potential blood-based cytokine biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease using Firth Logistic Regression

Mohammad Nasir Abdullah, Yap Bee Wah, Yuslina Zakaria, Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed, Ong Seng Huat
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Bayesian Analysis of Doubly Inflated Poisson Regression for Correlated Count Data: Application to DMFT Data

B. Gholami Chaboki, A. Akbarzadeh baghban , T. Baghfalaki, M. Khoshnevisan, M. Heydarpour meymeh
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Modeling the trajectory of CD4 cell count and its effect on the risk of AIDS progression and TB infection among HIV-infected patients using a joint model of competing risks and longitudinal ordinal data

Behnaz Alafchi, Hossein Mahjub, Leili Tapak, Jalal Poorolajal, Ghodratollah Roshanaei
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