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... percentage, and type of adverse events associated with each treatment Accompany this tabulation with a statistical analysis of the set of adverse events as a whole as well as supplementary analyses ... education, attendance at meettruncated, or transformed prior ings and conferences directed at to the analysis? statisticians, as well as seminars at Are the assumptions for the test local universities ... populations being compared Permutation tests A family of statistical techniques using a variety of test statistics The p-values obtained from these tests are always exact, not approximations p-Value...

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... of pausing to develop hypotheses, acting, and pausing to reflect on the results Schon calls this "reflection-in-action" and talks about it as a characteristic of professionals who are successful ... learning becomes synonymous with absorbing information dished out by an "expert," and everyone, both student and teacher, moves as quickly as possible so as to absorb as much as possible.1 In an ... most managers not reflect carefully on their actions Typically, managers in the experiments adopt a strategy, then as soon as the strategy starts to run into problems, they switch to another strategy,...

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... is respected by her peers, and always has great ideas and approaches that help your projects surpass their goals As a result of Laura s success, about a month ago, you decided to make her team-lead ... what a coach actually is or what a coach actually does This leaves many managers scratching their heads as they try to fit one more ambiguous task into their already over-busy schedules So what ... professional associations, and other organizations For details, contact Special Sales Department, AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY 100 19 Tel.:...

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... This refreshing book makes his thoughts and insights available to all An inspiring must-read for anyone serious about doing business in today s world.” Nick Crawford, Social Business Strategist, ... products are often claimed as trademarks All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners The publisher ... businesses because it gives them a voice, and a chance to manifest what Nelson Mandela calls their “spark of genius.” x Foreword This book is as insightful, unconventional, and original as its...

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... system means that we all have a share, a stake in the success or failure of the enterprise A simple stakeholder analysis is a way of harnessing diverse interests and energies in the face of a ... their businesses As businesses have grown in size and ownership has become more diffuse and institutional, leadership has emerged as a distinctive organisational role Someone must offer a sense of ... remains very high Teams are the basic unit of organisation for people and tasks, and good teamworking ability is a prize asset As competition has increased and standards have risen, clients and customers...

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... Portals and Forums Charting and Technical Services FOREX Education News and Calendars Live Data and APIs Historical Data System Development Tools FOREX Managed Accounts Peter Panholzer Advisory Services ... Currency USD United States Dollar EUR Euro members Euro JPY Japan Yen GBP Great Britain Pound CHF Switzerland Franc CAD Canada Dollar AUD Australia Dollar days There are also futures and forwards in ... advantages and disadvantages of both schools in the chapters in this section I offer ideas on selecting from these trading tools to assemble a basic, personal trading approach that you can easily build...

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... believes—with a hearty caveat emptor—less regulation is, on balance, an advantage Nevertheless, most countries have some regulatory say and more seems on the way Regardless, fraud is always fraud wherever ... effects caused by insider trading Fraud possibilities, at least against the system as a whole, are significantly less than in any other financial instruments Limited regulation There is but limited ... Exchange 191 3—U .S Congress creates the Federal Reserve System 193 3—Congress passes the Securities Act of 193 3 to counter the effects of the Great Crash of 192 9 193 4—The Securities Exchange Act of 193 4...

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... Financial Services Authority (FSA); Australia—Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC); Switzerland—requires registration as a Financial Intermediary under Swiss Federal Law; Canada—Investment ... buy and sell without substantial pip spread increases; a willing buyer or seller is always available at or near the last price—is not good Whereas a EUR/USD pair may be traded at two pips at almost ... prospect and accept accounts from U .S citizens The Financial Markets Association (FMA) has suggested international foreign exchange regulatory standards FMA s model code currently has regulatory standing...

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... the close of the same trading session or day In futures a day trader is considered a short-term trader In FX a day trader—who holds positions across multiple trading sessions—is considered a long-term ... Trends American Management Association, 2001 Murphy, John Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets Prentice Hall, 199 9 Nison, Steve Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques Hall, 2001 Du Plessis, ... to secure a loan or as a guarantee of performance commission A transaction fee charged by a broker confirmation A document exchanged by counterparts to a transaction that states the terms of said...

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... Data Entry and Data Management 242 Small-Scale Clinical Studies 242 Clinical Database Managers 242 Data Analysis 243 Utilities 244 Sample Size Determination 244 Screen Capture 245 Data Conversion ... Measures and Evaluation 90 Procedures 90 Clinical Follow-Up 90 Adverse Events 91 Data Management, Monitoring, Quality Control 91 Statistical Analysis 91 Investigator Responsibilities 92 Ethical ... 190 Categories 190 Metric Data 192 Statistical Analysis 194 Categorical Data 196 Ordinal Data 197 Metric Data 198 An Example 199 Time-to-Event Data 200 Step By Step 203 The Study Population 203...

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... employing surrogate variables such as cholesterol as end points are acceptable in some areas But not in all There are many documented reports of surrogate variables that have failed abysmally as predictors ... Programmers 2+ Database Manager Develop data entry screens LP Develop data entry screens Integrity and security of data To say nothing of investigators, investigational laboratories, safety and efficacy ... be stated as precisely as possible Consider the following: “The purpose of this trial is to demonstrate that X763 is as effective as aspirin in treating stress-induced headaches and has fewer side...

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... demographics and risk factors can be used for forming subgroups or strata for analysis Second, obtaining a baseline measurement allows us to use each individual as his own control Without a baseline measurement, ... base our comparisons on the final reading of the primary response variable alone Let s suppose this response variable is blood pressure It might be that an untreated individual has a final diastolic ... of adverse events by type against treatment Data such as laboratory values and blood pressure that are measured on a continuous metric scale We should also distinguish “time-till-event” data (time...

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... certain key assumptions that are seldom realized in practice To use a crossover design, one has to assume that neither treatment has a residual effect, that using B after A has exactly the same ... BW ( 199 9) Group Sequential Methods with Applications to Clinical Trials Chapman & Hall/CRC Jones B; Kenward MG ( 198 9) Design and Analysis of Crossover Trials New York: Chapman and Hall Karlsson ... treatments and/or multiple cofactors, only some and not all treatment combinations are tested Sophisticated statistical methods are used during the analysis phase to compensate for the missing data...

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