Background: In medical research, statistical tests have become more important. Several parametric procedures are available but each of them requires normality assumption. As normality violation may affect interpretation and inferences reliability and validity, so importance of no...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/8921
Aims: Analysis of hospital processes has become a necessity to improve its performance over time through developing improved policies and decisions. In this context, the knowledge gained from an accurate prediction of patient flows would provide valuable information for strategic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/30987
Introduction: Rapid development of statistics and its application in various sciences along with the growing advances in data manipulation and representation with modern computer technologies accentuate the need for replacing traditional methods in statistics education with moder...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/29673
Aims: Assessing the correlation between two variables is very important in observational and experimental researches. “How many sample size was required?” is one of the preliminary questions for correlation studies. Although achieving normality is rare the available techniques ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2014/7923