Adding clinical risk factors and a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to the conventional diagnostic algorithm for chest pain improves the prediction and discrimination of patients with suspected ...

Among patients with suspected obstructive CAD, two simple models that include clinical risk factors both outperform the commonly used pretest probability (PTP) model when it comes to predicting the ...

Athlete acquaintances and the news media have led me to believe that P can be very high, and in fact approach unity, in some sports. If this is true, then anti-doping measures should cease — and not ...

The aim of validating default probabilities is to analyze whether these are not too low. For small sample sizes, however, there are not enough observations available to detect excessively low default ...

Imagine that you have just invested a substantial amount of time and money in a shotgun proteomics experiment designed to identify proteins involved in a particular biological process. The experiment ...

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