Researchers have found that no adjustment method fully resolves confounding by indication in observational studies, meaning when the validity of a study is threatened by unmeasured confounding, it is ...

Five or 10-year are commonly reported outcome measures by cancer registries. Because prognosis strongly depends on age for many forms of cancer, age adjustment is often employed in comparative ...

Christina Majaski writes and edits finance, credit cards, and travel content. She has 14+ years of experience with print and digital publications. A seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique ...

We propose a simple adjustment for profile likelihoods. The aim of the adjustment is to alleviate some of the problems inherent in the use of profile likelihoods, such as bias, inconsistency and ...

The Labor Department is switching to a new method to seasonally adjust its weekly jobless claims figures that could result in a sharply lower claims totals. Initial claims – a rough measure of layoffs ...

Electronic health record (EHR)-based comorbidity assessment had low sensitivity for identifying major comorbidities and poorly predicted survival. EHR-based comorbidity data require validation prior ...

The American Journal of Psychology (AJP) was founded in 1887 by G. Stanley Hall and was edited in its early years by Titchener, Boring, and Dallenbach. The Journal has published some of the most ...