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Virolactia in an asymptomatic mother with COVID-19

… A 20-year-old gravida 2 para 2 pregnant woman with no COVID-19 symptoms presented for delivery to another hospital at 39 weeks of gestation. She was tested for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-…

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Antenatal neuroprotective magnesium sulfate in very preterm infants and its association with feeding intolerance

… without a significant adverse effect (2,3). However, none of those trials assessed the link between specific neonatal serum magnesium (Mg) levels and CP. While MgSO 4 is used …

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Evaluation of the effectiveness of systemic inflammatory indices in the diagnosis of respiratory distress syndrome in preterm with gestational age of≤ 32 weeks

Objective It is not yet known whether systemic inflammatory indices affect the development of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in premature infants. We aimed to evaluate the …

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On the validity of MAPE as a measure of population forecast accuracy

… , we do not include the median absolute percent error, a summary measure unaffected by outliers that has been used in other forecast evaluation studies (Tayman 1996; Tayman & …

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Evaluation of systemic inflammatory indices in the diagnosis of early onset neonatal sepsis in very low birth weight infants

… Neonatal sepsis is divided into 2 categories correlating … not full sufficient because they are affected by factors other than sepsis and various peak concentration times in serum levels [2…

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Assessing uncertainty in small area forecasts: State of the practice and implementation strategy

… undertaken gradually and cautiously, not abruptly. In that way, one can decide how far along the forecast uncertainty road map it wants to travel without committing resources up front. It …

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Confidence intervals for postcensal state population estimates

This paper develops a methodology for constructing confidence intervals around postcensal state population estimates. Using regression equations, forecast intervals are derived …

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Between a rock and a hard place: The evaluation of demographic forecasts

Forecasting, in general, has been described as an unavoidable yet impossible task. This irony, which comprises the ‘rock’ and the ‘hard place’ in the title, creates a high level of …

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Boosted regression trees for small-area population forecasting

… 2) the outsized impact of a small number of outliers with large influences on overall error, (3) the likely necessity of applying control totals to improve accuracy, and (4) in many cases the …

On Measuring Accuracy in Subnational Demographic Forecasts