The Breakthrough Devices Program of the US Food and Drug Administration has accelerated the development and evaluation of medical devices for patients with heart failure. One such device is the ...

Objectives We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Canada’s National Overdose Response Service (NORS) and in particular, highlight the conditions under which the cost-effectiveness decision would change ...

The utility of evaluating mediation effects spans across research domains. The model facilitates investigation of underlying mechanisms of event timing and, as such, has the potential to help ...

Concepts and measures of time series uncertainty and complexity have been applied across domains for behavior classification, risk assessments, and event detection/prediction. This paper contributes ...

Competing risks occur frequently in the analysis of survival data. A competing risk is an event whose occurrence precludes the occurrence of the primary event of interest. In a study examining time to ...

Bayes factors represent an informative alternative to P-values for reporting outcomes of hypothesis tests. They provide direct measures of the relative support that data provide to competing ...

Although no historical information exists about the Indus civilization (flourished ca. 2600–1900 B.C.), archaeologists have uncovered about 3,800 short samples of a script that was used throughout the ...

In this Director's Forum, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia warned of whathe sees as the dangers of interpreting the Constitution as a "living"document rather than giving it its original meaning. "The ...

In many cancer studies, the main outcome under assessment is the time to an event of interest. The generic name for the time is survival time, although it may be applied to the time ‘survived’ from ...