A Review Of Published Studies Looking At Statistical Models And Methods And Their Application To Problems Of Infectious Diseases Such As COVID-19 In BMJ
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or age category. The correlation technique
Keywords: statistical regression
meta-analysis analysis,
factor
service, analysis,
Confirmatory Factor Analysis, clinical trial analysis, data mining services, biostatistics services, Time series analysis
will be useful to identify the relationship between these two variables. And suppose the researcher wants to predict the effectiveness of future outcomes. In that case, the regression analysis will be useful as
using R.
it
identifies
the
average
linear
relationship between the dependent and independent variables. Apart from the I. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH
usual correlation and regression analysis,
SCIENCE:
many researchers adopt dimensionality reduction
Health science research is the most
techniques
such
as
factor
analysis.
interesting research area as we identify the III. FACTOR ANALYSIS
pattern of Genomic diseases and various other kinds of diseases.
Factor analysis reduces the dimensions and
II. STATISTICAL MODELS IN HUMAN
creates the latent variables. Each latent
HEALTH SCIENCE:
variable acts as another variable in the study. With those latent variables, one can
The most common statistical approach for any human health studies is correlation and regression analysis. Suppose, consider a vaccine effectiveness researcher
wants
study, to
and the
identify
the
construct linear regression analysis and predict future outcomes or simply identify the
variables'
linear
relationship.For
example, Goni et al. (2020) considered a Confirmatory factor analysis to study
effectiveness of vaccine among the gender
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respiratory tract infections in Hajj and Umrah. They collected the data in the form survey involving 72 variables. In practice, analysing the entire 72 variables will yield poor results. Thus, the dimensionality reduction
technique
is
adopted
and
measured by the confirmatory factor analysis,
which
uses
the
chi-square
statistic. Also, Saefi et al. (2020) studied the undergraduate student's knowledge about COVID19, measures taken by them to prevent the disease, and maintaining the health style during COVID19. They
IV. BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS With this information, they conducted a Bayesian meta-analysis and performed 10000 Markov Chain iterations using fixed effects and random effects separately and found no statistical incoherence in the analysis. Furthermore, Xu et al. (2020) studied the characteristics of patients affected by COVID19 outside Wuhan in China. The study revealed that people affected with COVID outside Wuhan city are very mild than the people affected in Wuhan.
conducted a survey and investigated the properties of the KAP questionnaire by
Apart from the viral infectious disease,
adopting Confirmatory Factor Analysis
numerous diseases are of interest to the
(CFA) and RASCH model and the results
researchers
of these analyses revealed that each of the
remedies, risk factors, etc. One such
items in the questionnaire possesses
increasing research area is cancer studies.
unique qualities and this questionnaire is
Calster et al. (2020) considered a cohort
adequate enough to measure the student's
study on ovarian cancer and identified the
knowledge, attitude and practice during
best model to detect cancer and properly
COVID19. Further, Siemieniuk et al.
distinguish cancer types. The dataset has
(2020) compared the effects of COVID19
been collected from IOTA and selected a
treatments from literature using Meta-
proper sample for the analysis. Five
analysis. Data for this study has been
different models have been conducted, and
collected daily from different sources such
the results revealed that SRRisk and
as the WHO website, Centre for Disease
ADNEX
Control and Prevention in the U.S.,
classifying the type of cancer. Healthcare
PubMed, etc. The data includes detailed
research is to diagnose the disease or find
information of the patient affected with
the risk factor associated with the disease.
COVID19, like the length of stay in ICU,
Statistical techniques can be used to
duration of ventilation, etc.
analyse the causes of the diseases. In that
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models
finding
the
performed
causes,
well
in
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sense, Tian et al. (2019) estimated the risk
80%.The fifth model uses a mobile
factors of hospital admission related to
application to collect data and to risk-
cardiovascular disease. A total of 184
stratify patients. It uses demographics,
cities in China are included in the study,
symptoms, and contact history of users.It
and the information related to pollution
further expanded into two more models:
and hospital admissions are collected.
blood values and blood values plus
They adopted Time series analysis to
computed tomography (C.T.) images.
investigate
the
association
between
pollution and disease. The results showed
Table: Overview of prediction models for
that short-term exposure to pollution leads
diagnosis and prognosis of covid-1911
to
increased
cardiovascular
hospital
admissions
disease.
for
Statswork
provides high quality biostatistics services which helps precise estimation of the effect
size
and
increases
the
generalizability of the results of individual studies. V. MODELS TO FORECAST THE RISK OF COVID-19 IN THE GENERAL POPULATION
VI. DIAGNOSTIC MODELS TO DISCOVER COVID-19 IN PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED INFECTION
They acknowledged seven models that
It is a type of method or test used to
help in predicting the risk of covid-19 in
help diagnose a disease or condition. It
the general population. Three models from
includes imaging tests and tests to measure
one study used hospital admission based
blood pressure, pulse, and temperature are
on non-tuberculosis pneumonia, influenza,
examples
acute bronchitis, or upper respiratory tract
Diagnosis has
infections as substitution outcomes in a
for patient care, research, and policy.
of diagnostic
techniques.
significant
implications
dataset without any patients with covid191. The fourth model uses a deep learning technique detecting thermal video from the
VII .PREDICTIVE MODELS TO DIAGNOSE COVID-19
faces of people wearing facemasks to
A predictive
detecting abnormal breathing (not covid
combining at least two prognostic factors,
related) with a reported sensitivity of
based
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model was
multivariable
defined
analysis,
as
as
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REFERENCES
estimating the individual risk of a specific outcome, presented as regression formula, nomogram, or in a simplified form, such as risk score. A predictive model is a formal grouping of multiple predictors from which a particular endpoint's risks can be calculated for individual patients. Other names for a predictive
model include prognostic (or
prediction) index or rule, risk (or clinical) prediction model, and predictive model.
VIII. CONCLUSION: Further, statistical techniques have been widely used in epidemiological research. Moustgaard et al. (2020) studied the impact of treatment and therapeutically effects in clinical trials using metaanalysis. The results showed no difference in the effects of treatments of patients from the healthcare providers with and without blinding. Furthermore, Fabbri et al. (2020) presented a review on the health care providers and South African patients' funding
using
recommended companies
meta-analysis. that
provide
the
They
corporate
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providing funds to patients, and this type of funding can be seen in high-income countries. If you are struggling with metaanalysis you can reach our statistical metaanalysis service.
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