11.9 Questions and Answers Related to the Diagnostic Ability/Validity of a Test 11.9.1 What Is the Sensitivity and Specificity of a Test? In medical diagnosis, the terms sensitivity and specificity are often used to assess the ability of an alternative test against a gold standard to identify ...
medicine and biology, and the development of new tools to study these areas. Biostatistics constitutes the quantitative foundation for public health practice and research. It comprises the reasoning and methods for usingdataas evidence to address public health and biomedical questions. ...
The answers to questions 1-3 must include what data you used (inclusion / exclusion) and selection of appropriate statistical measures and why, an appropriate presentation of the data in a graph and / or table, statements about assumption testing, and an appropriate conclusion based on a statist...
Duke's Master of Biostatistics Program is unique in its balanced focus on three core competencies: analysis, biology, and communication. All faculty members in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke are actively engaged in research, with projects collectively spanning a broad array ...
Obviously, after you ask the questions you have to come up with the answers. And you have to be able to think in new directions to answer those questions (creativity). For if you can answer those questions using tried and true techniques, then they really aren’t research questions—they...
Our response to such questions is to demonstrate the conflicting answers that arise from the varied approaches to stochastic curtailment: conditional power under different hypotheses and predictive power under different priors. We then discuss the foundational inconsistencies with stochastic curtailment ...
The students of Dr. Andresen’s graduate course in disability epidemiology at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health also furnished valuable comments, questions, and editing; their time and patience have made this a better product....