Category Epidemiology

Epidemiology

To see well you must be blind

Blinding. Masking or blinding is a concealment technique that prevents the existence of information biases.

Manuel Molina
10/08/2013

Epidemiology

The sun is not hurried by early risers

Preventive trials biases. Preventive trials require more time to be performed because participants are healthy people, so they are at risk of specific biases.

Manuel Molina
10/01/2013

Epidemiology

Do it with sensitivity

Sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity analysis allows assessing the effect on the results of the type of data used, the absent or extreme values, among others.