Articles — Poster

Information before unblinding regarding the success of confirmatory clinical trials is highly uncertain. Estimates of expected future power which purport to use this information for purposes of sample size adjustment after given interim points need to reflect this uncertainty. Estimates of future power at later interim points need to track the evolution of the clinical trial. We employ sequential models to describe this evolution. We show that current techniques using point estimates of auxiliary parameters for estimating expected power: (i) fail to describe the range of likely power obtained after the anticipated data are observed, (ii) fail to adjust to different kinds of thresholds, and (iii) fail to adjust to the changing patient population. Our algorithms address each of these shortcomings. We show that the uncertainty arising from clinical trials is characterized by filtering later auxiliary parameters through their earlier counterparts and employing the resulting posterior distribution to estimate power. We devise MCMC-based algorithms to implement sample size adjustments after the first interim point. Bayesian models are designed to implement these adjustments in settings where both hard and soft thresholds for distinguishing the presence of treatment effects are present. Sequential MCMC-based algorithms are devised to implement accurate sample size adjustments for multiple interim points. We apply these suggested algorithms to a depression trial for purposes of illustration.

A ranking system for tech stocks and bank stocks of S&P 500 companies

Poster presented at The 5th Conference of the European Societies of Neuropsychology on 9.-11. September 2015.

Improper oral care is often an unintentional lifestyle that can lead to a variety of health issues. Lacking access to oral health care services is a problem faced by many, which can lead to adverse economic and health consequences. Tooth decay is one of the earliest indicators of inadequate oral health care in children. By utilizing a preventative approach that o ers u- oride tablets to elementary children in uoride-de cient com- munities, the prevalence of oral cavities can be combated.

The idea behind Quiz Challenger was to create knowledgeable environment in which user can share and enhance knowledge by giving and accepting challenge. The Quiz challenger is developed on JavaScript used for front-end and node JS used for back-end development. To dealt with database we use MongoDB.

This is a poster presenting DeCAF – Discrimination, Comparison, Alignment algorithm for small molecules.

Entre las ventajas que tiene la domótica esta la protección del hogar e integración familiar, añadir valor a la vivienda, mejorar la calidad de vida (acondicionar el clima, aislamiento de equipos, encendido y apagado de luces, regular la energía y automatizar los distintos sistemas) de las personas que viven en ella y en este caso la que nos identifica es el ahorro energético que 'añade inteligencia a las casas

Attempt to define various metrics directly related to coverage per compute second; an improvement on which furthers the desired left shift in design verification. A part to the solution to find breaks early in a continuous integration system, qualifying the design prior to important milestones and iterating over recent bug fixes or changes to weed out related issues is proposed. Created with the Jacobs Landscape Poster LaTeX Template Version 1.0 (29/03/13)

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