Background: For chemicals with high within-subject temporal variability, assessing exposure
biomarkers in a spot biospecimen poorly estimates average levels over long periods. The …

Adverse male reproduction caused by phthalate ester (PAE) exposure has been well
documented in vivo. However, existing evidence from population studies remains …

Urbanization is growing at a rapid pace, and this is being reflected in the rising energy
consumption from fossil fuels, which is contributing significantly to greenhouse gas impacts …

Group testing is widely used to reduce the cost of screening individuals for infectious
diseases. There is an extensive literature on group testing, most of which traditionally has …

Statistical Testing Strategies in the Health Sciences provides a compendium of statistical
approaches for decision making, ranging from graphical methods and classical procedures …

Screening procedures for infectious diseases, such as HIV, often involve pooling individual
specimens together and testing the pools. For diseases with low prevalence, group testing …

The aim of this chapter is to review and examine different methods in order to display correct
and efficient statistical techniques based on complete/incomplete data subject to different …

Epidemiological studies involving biomarkers are often hindered by prohibitively expensive
laboratory tests. Strategically pooling specimens prior to performing these lab assays has …

We conducted a case-referent study of the effect of exposure to bisphenol-A on fetal growth
in utero in full-term, live-born singletons in Alberta, Canada. Newborns< 10 percentile of …

Group testing, where individual specimens are composited into groups to test for the
presence of a disease (or other binary characteristic), is a procedure commonly used to …