Courses conducted by the Dept of Biostatistics, CMC Vellore

Courses conducted by the Dept of Biostatistics, CMC Vellore

The Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore has been actively involved in data management, statistical analysis, report writing and training in collaboration with several departments of the institution and pharmaceutical companies. The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center (BRTC) works with governmental and non-governmental organizations, providing advisory and training services. This resource center also organizes workshops on recent developments in Biostatistics with the help of visiting faculties from abroad. More details
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A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log

Mosa AS, Yoo I. A Study on Pubmed Search Tag Usage Pattern: Association Rule Mining of a Full-day Pubmed Query Log BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2013 Jan 9;13:8. Note from QMed: “Search tags” in PubMed are methods by which a user could ask for a search term to be (compulsorily) present  in the title or as a “MeSH term” (which means the article is “about” that term, whether the search term is present in the title or abstract or not). There are several search tags that can be used in PubMed to refine searches. This article is extremely unusual…
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Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Lecture – Literature Search – at Dr Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Nashik – Mar 3, 2013

Dr. BK Nayak, former editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology initiated a series of workshops on Research Methodology, during his tenure as Editor of this journal. The workshops are conducted twice a year. The current editor Dr. S. Natarajan continues this trend. Dr. Nayak now continues this through the Maharashtra Ophthalmic Society too, and with the Dean of the Medical College, Dr Mrunal Patil, also an office bearer of the MOS, planned this one day event. Vasumathi Sriganesh has always been a part of  the IJO team and now is also with the MOS efforts. Both the Ophthalmological associations…
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