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IN THE CONTEXT OF DATA COLLECTION — IS BIGGER BETTER? Can big data help in our fight against COVID-19?
The traditional researcher concept that big data equates statistical significance should not eclipse the importance of understanding the interrelationship between the effect size, power, and sample size that could translate to both practical and statistical significance. It is critical to be guided by a working theory that gives birth to a useful solution to any… →
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Bridging Cancer Epidemiology and Social Evolution
Modern epidemiology is a direct result of the paradigm shift from a population-based (upstream) to a downstream (individual) approach. The impact of modern epidemiology such as ‘molecular’ and ‘genetic’ epidemiology (Loomis & Wing, 1990; Diez-Roux, 1998) requires an explanatory power that mostly dependent upon the advances in technology and information systems. Moreover, before estimating the… →
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Continuing the Journey to Make a Difference
Since I am just returning to full time consulting after being hooded last week, my eyes are on the consulting in applied public health epidemiology, Mohs Histopathology, and staff/medical practice development. Do you need a research and report Writer? A medical copy writer? A technical writer? Need a content writer? Need help with your dissertation?… →
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An Executive Summary
Pathopoiesis Mechanism of Smoking and Shared Genes in Pancreatic Cancer DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33028.63362 To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks the real advance in science (Einstein & Infeld, 1938, p. 92). Pancreatic cancer (PC) at the start of the 21st century continues to be… →
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Indoor Tanning and Melanoma: A Public Health Issue
Indoor Tanning and Melanoma: A Public Health Issue Ulysses Labilles and Jennifer Beito In Minnesota and other parts of the U.S., increase melanoma continue to be common among women than men younger than 50 years. Lazovich et al. (2016) highlighted the gap between age- and the sex-specific association studies between indoor tanning and melanoma. It… →