… c, and, trivially, for c sufficiently large that the best single tests achieves asymptotic power of
1. For intermediate c … and inline image for R 2 = 0.75 and c = −15. A pretest would need to …

Background—Circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) may constitute an independent
risk factor for cardiovascular disease. How CRP as a risk factor is involved in cardiovascular …

Conclusions The endothelium is a key organ involved in the pathogenesis of sepsis. Dysfunction
of or injury to the endothelium may be involved in the pathogenesis of multiple organ …

… You can easily create longer vectors by using the function c() (c is for “concatenate” or “combine”).
To create a vector y containing the numbers 1 to 5 and print it, do the following. …

The relationship between alcohol and pancreatic diseases is difficult to accurately define.
Although many individuals with chronic pancreatitis have a history of excessive and sustained …

Mostly Harmless Econometrics (MHE) covers well-known econometric methods such as linear
regression and instrumental variables (Chaps. 3 and 4), but also more recent techniques …

Background We determined body weight increase in first year Dutch college students. We
had the objective to determine whether the awareness of the unhealthy lifestyle raised …

Biodiversity, a multidimensional property of natural systems, is difficult to quantify partly
because of the multitude of indices proposed for this purpose. Indices aim to describe general …

… degree of complement activation, and then the C,a generated might have escaped detection
… of C,a to cellular receptors on neutrophils (for this reason we did not attempt to measure C,a …

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is likely to be an important mediator of the inflammatory response. We
measured levels of this cytokine in plasma samples from 37 patients with sepsis or septic shock …