A note yesterday with an article about increasing attacks on American and Afghan troops in Afghanistan misstated the origin of reporting by one correspondent, David Rohde.
Correction: August 2, 2004, Monday A note yesterday with an article about increasing attacks on American and Afghan troops in Afghanistan misstated the origin of reporting by one correspondent, David Rohde.
The origin of reported cases slowly shifted: most cases were international travel related until early June; in June, roughly half were international travel related and the other half were domestic; in July, most cases were domestic.
Using appropriate statistical tests we investigated whether there was an improvement in reporting quality since the introduction of the STARD checklist, whether a correlation existed between study sample size, country of origin of study and reporting quality.
Senn's use of the term 'publication bias' in his commentary suggests that he is restricting it to editorial bias whereas, as indicated above, the origins of reporting bias are largely due to researchers' decisions not to submit, not editorial decisions not to accept.
Each report is assigned to a country year stratum, based on the country of origin of the report and the date of the event.
The strongest predictors of disease frequency were source population (with the highest rates being reported in population studies and the lowest in clinic-based cohorts) and geographic origin of the report.
Correction: August 30 , 2001 Thursday Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about a subpoena issued by the Justice Department for the home telephone records of a reporter covering the federal investigation of Senator Robert G. Torricelli, Democrat of New Jersey, omitted the origin of the report.
Actually, it was at the origin of 1,145 reported deaths according to the World Health Organization (WHO), reporting 413 cases in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, Sierra Leone and 348 in Nigeria.
The Dutch authorities declined to identify the origin of the reports.
