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Clinical trials employ sequential analysis for the ethical and economic benefits it brings. In dentistry, as in other fields, resources are scarce and efforts are made to ensure that patients are ...
Abstract: Certain sequential tests of statistical hypotheses known as sequential probability ratio tests (SPRT) possess an optimum property that they can accelerate, on the average, the termination of ...
When clinicians contemplate the use of a new predictive technology in their practice, such as a nomogram, there is always a question of whether the new test is beneficial to their own clinical ...
In clinical trials with sequential patient entry, fixed sample size designs are unjustified on ethical grounds and sequential designs are often impracticable. One solution is a group sequential design ...
Abstract: Methods for determining the letters of our genetic code, known as DNA sequencing, currently depend on clever use of electrophoresis to generate data sets indicative of the underlying ...
The first article analyses the Sequential Minimal Optimization method (SMO) proposed by Platt. Whereas in the second and the third, the authors proposed two different improvements of the SMO that, ...