Short Courses on Biostatistics

Short Courses on Biostatistics

Thirty-seventh Short Course in Biostatistics The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing series of its thirty-seventh Short courses in Biostatistics from May 28 – June 7, 2018 at CMC Vellore. These courses are mainly designed to train researchers to competently handle and analyze health/medical data. These courses are targeted towards Biostatisticians/ Statisticians, Epidemiologists, Medical Researchers and Social Scientists who have basic knowledge in Regression analyses. Course Date Last date for registration Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression & Survival Analysis May 28-June 01, 2018 May 21, 2018 Multilevel Modeling (MLM) and Longitudinal…
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NLM: An integral part of the NIH since 1968: A Brief History of its Inception

  If you have used PubMed, and taken a wee bit of trouble to look at the left side of the search box, you may have noticed the PubMed logo followed by the words: US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The NLM is where the whole PubMed database is compiled.  Let us learn a little more about the NLM and its history. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library with a print and electronic collection used by millions of people around the world. NLM has been around since 1836,…
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Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews

Paez A. Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews. J Evid Based Med. 2017 Aug; 10(3):233-2 Systematic reviews are publications that provide a state-of-art synthesis of evidence on any given research question. While clinical trials and large studies are analysed to synthesize evidence, you cannot afford to ignore gray literature. The concept of Gray literature is described in this article as “that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers”. Simply put, gray literature comprises the whole collection of research works that have…
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