We formulate the principles of dynamic modeling in health research, which are coherent to those in other fields of research. Dynamic models explicitly describe causal relations which are to be adequately accounted in statistical methods, making them free of misuse of statistics and statistical fallacy...
A great deal has been written about the misuse of statistics by pressure groups and politicians, by pollsters and advertising campaigns, by the broadcast media (newspapers, magazines, television, and now the Internet), and even misuse by statisticians and scientists. In some instances the misuse ...
As for deaths, 134 deaths is roughly 0.7/100,000, a very tiny number. Of course, as is always the case, what is the comparator? How many people in the US die of cardiac events on a give day?This is a little trickier because CDC death statistics show that ...
In recent years, misuse and abuse of demographic methods appear quite often in population studies, which are harmful to the seriousness and the accuracy of population statistics. Taking a new study of the fertility level with the P/F ratio method for the 2010 national population census as an ...
In recent years, misuse and abuse of demographic methods appear quite often in population studies, which are harmful to the seriousness and the accuracy of population statistics. Taking a new study of the fertility level with the P/F ratio method for the 2010 national population census as an ...