Short Courses in Biostatistics – March 30th to 31st and April 1st to 3rd, 2020

Short Courses in Biostatistics – March 30th to 31st and April 1st to 3rd, 2020

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing Short Course on Statistical Methods in Measuring Health and Principles of Biostatistics using ‘R’ Short Course on Statistical Methods in Measuring Health: Scales and Measurements - March 30-31, 2020 Principles of Biostatistics using ‘R’ - April 1-3, 2020 For more information click here https://www.cmc-biostatistics.ac.in/upcommingevent.php
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A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

A Workshop on Research Methodology in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from 16th to 20th March 2020

The workshop is organized by Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Collaboration with UDEHP) KAHER, Belagavi, Karnataka. This workshop will be useful for Faculty in Medicine, Health Research Scholars and Students preparing for Entrance Exam for Higher Ph. D etc The workshop covers: - Designing Studies, Protocol Writing & Statistical Fallacies; Literature Search & Review, Impact Factor; Study Designs, Sampling Techniques and Analysis; Sample Size Estimation and Study Designs and Diagnostic evaluation For more details: Contact: Organizing Secretary Dr. N.K. Tyagi, Professor and Head, KLE Acamedy Of Higher Education And ResearchDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, JNMC campus, Nehru Nagar, Belagavi -590010…
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Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Predatory journals claiming that they follow all the ICMJE recommendations

Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers. R Dal-Ré, A Marušić. Neth J Med. 2019;77(2):92–96. Link: http://www.njmonline.nl/getpdf.php?id=2093 ; PMID: 30895939. Recently several predatory journals seem to claim that they follow all the ICMJE (The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) recommendations to gain the appearance of legitimacy. The term ‘predatory journals’ could be assumed, that these are open access journals that publish poor quality articles, with poor or no peer-review process, owned by publishers providing no transparent editorial services. Their main objective is financial gain by article processing charges to authors. In this paper, the authors…
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