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Methods issue 5/2010
The statistical analysis of correlated non-normally distributed biomedical data has been challenging until the breakthrough publications of Liang and Zeger in the middle of the 1980's. The fundamental idea of their approach...[more]
Methods issue 4/2010
This is an exciting time in clinical natural language processing (NLP). Many of the ideas discussed in the NLP community over the last decade have finally come to fruition. Five articles in this issue investigate the interface of...[more]
Methods issue 3/2010
Classification, also termed class prediction is one of the major challenges in many areas of application. A group of four statistical papers has been published in this issue, all dealing with the problem of classification in...[more]
Methods issue 2/2010
IMIA White Paper on "Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics - First Revision" - The development of educational recommendations can...[more]
Methods issue 1/2010
Even if pervasive healthcare is in the phase of being consolidated as a new research discipline there are still some aspects of it that remain ambiguous to the research community. The intention of the Special Topic...[more]