Questions regarding Juvenile Arthritis Study
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Fragment of a discussion from Course talk:STAT 550 2013
1. Are doses of corticosteroid equally effective when ingested versus injected?
2. What are the key units of measurement for dosage patterns, and which is of the greatest interest? (i.e. dosage amount, dosage frequency)
3. What difference in growth would be scientifically relevant between a JRA case and a similar child without JRA?
1. Taking corticosteroid might have a beneficial effect on wight gain, but an adverse influence on growth in height. Then how to evaluate the effect of this treatment?
2. How to decide the pattern of dosings? Just depend on doctor's decisions or subject physical conditions? Does this variation of dosings between physicians rusult in some bias in final analysis?
PeijunSang (talk)