IJSMR

Lifescience Global would like to appreciate and thank all the reviewers and authors for their rigorous and conscientious efforts for the International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research. Below is the list of people who contributed towards the success of the journal during 2015.

Authors

Reviewers

Abdur Rasheed
Adel Eltaguri
Afaq Ahmed Siddiqui
Alan E. Stark
Alan Fontana
Alessandro Fauci
Amal Elramli
Amel Benammar Elgaaïed
Ami Klin
Andre P. Kengne
Anindya De
Anna Jeng
Annalisa Orenti 
Arif Ali
Asma Gati
Bachioua Lahcene
Balaswamy
Carmen Cadarso-Suárez
Carrie Hosman
Cesare Baldi
Christopher D. Lang
Cristóbal Esteban
David E. Clark
Dom Cicchetti
Domenic V. Cicchetti
Donald Showalter 
Donato Cascio
Edilberto Cepeda-Cuervo
Ehtesham Hussain
Elizabeth J. Malloy
Ellen P. McCarthy
Fatma Ben Khaial
Fayek Elkhwsky
Francesco Piemonte
Francisco Gude
G. Sameera
Giuseppe Friscia
Giuseppe Raso
Hechmi Louzir
Helena Chmura Kraemer 
Hitinder S. Gurm
Ignazio Brusca
Imen Sfar
Inmaculada Arostegui
J. Lambert
Jason Glanz
John A. Bittl 
Jose María Quintana
K.V.S. Sarma
Kaoru Shimada
Katya L. Masconi
Keiko Fujiie
Kiyoji Tanaka
Komal Narwaney
Long H. Ngo
M. Ayub Khan Yousuf Zai
M. Wasay
M.K. Sharma
Maliha Naseer
Mansoor Ahmed
Mar Rodríguez-Girondo
Marco Cipolla
María Victoria Cifuentes-Amado
María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez
Martin Bland
Masako Watanabe
Masood ul Haq
Mayukh Samanta
Melika Ben Ahmed
Melike Bahçecitapar
Mesay Tefera
Mesay Tefera 
Miki Ojima
Miyuki Nemoto
Mónica López-Ratón
Muhammad El-Taha
Nao Suzuki
Noriko Yabushita
Norou Diawara
Örjan Hallberg
Özge Karadağ
P.A. Chandrasekharan
Patrizia Boracchi
Puja Makkar
Qi Jiang
R. Porcher
R. Vishnu Vardhan
R.S. Singh
Rafael Figueroa
Rafeeq Alam Khan
Raja Marrakchi Triki
Rajiv T. Erasmus
Renato De Vecchis
Riyad Bendardaf
Robert J. Milletich
S. Chevret 
S.K. Upadhyay
Saba Wasim
Sanjoy K. Paul
Satoru Haresaku
Satoshi Seino
Serpil Aktaş
Shagufta Tabassum
Shirnevas Darak
Songee Jung
Sophia Newcomer
Stanley Xu
Steven M. Snapinn
Syed Arif Ali
Taieb Ben Abdallah
Taimoor Malik
Takashi Hanioka
Takeshi Watanabe
Tandi E. Matsha
Tarak Dhaouadi
Thulasi Beere
Urko Aguirre
Usha S. Govindarajulu
V.K. Shukla
Vincenzo Taormina
Warren Jones
Waseem Akhtar
Wondiber Nega Melese
Yang Liu
Yoshiro Okubo
Yosuke Osuka
Yousr Gorgi
Youssra Haouami
Yuanyuan Liu
Yulei He
Zuhir Bodalal

A.D. Blann
A.M. Kajbafzadeh
Abby C. King
AD Blann
Adesh K. Gadpayle
Ahmed Alagouri
Ahmed N. Albatineh
Akihito Tsutsui
Akiyoshi Kinoshita
Alan E. Stark
Alan Starchers
Alessio Farcomeni
Alexander Bulinski
Alka Sabharwal
Amir H. Pakpour
Ana Telma Pereira
Anneleen Daemen
Antonio Maria Morselli-Labate
Audie Atienza
B.M. Golam Kibria
B. Popovic
Bachioua Lahcene
Barnali Deka
Bernard Omolo
Bin Xie
Božidar Popovic
Bruno Falissard
Changbin Guo
Chiara Seghieri
Chih-Chun Kung
Chong-Chi Chiu
Christos Koukouvinos
Cletus Kwa Kum
Cynthia Castro
Daichi Hayashi
Danila Coradini
Dingfeng Jiang
Domenic V. Cicchetti
Donald Hedeker
Elia Biganzoli
Emana Getu Degaga
Eugene Seneta
Francesco Barone–Adesi
Gabriella Ferrandina
Genevieve Fridlund Dunton
George Katharakis
Guohui Wu
Guojun Li
Gurprit Grover
H. Mannan
Hafiz M.R. Khan
Handan Nkarali
Harshal Pandve
Harshal Tukaram Pandve
Harunor Rashid
Hibret Alemu Tilahun
Hongmei Zhang
I.C.A. Oyeka
Jiang Dingfeng
Jimi Huh.
Jiyuan Zhou
Joanne Ryan
John Hart
John Lam Hiu Ming
José Afonso
José Antonio Roldán Nofuentes
Juhi Mittal
Juliana Rocha Goncalves
K.J. Kachiashvili
Kalyan Das
Kaoru Shimada
Lam Hiu Ming, John
Lev Klebanov
Li Liu
Liangliang Zhang
M. Ganjali
M. Tariqul Hasan
Wlodzimierz Borkowski
M.K. Sharma
Manuel Ortega-Calvo
Marco Iosa
Maria Katharaki
Matthias Kohl
Michel Vaillan
Miki Ojima
Minge Xie
Mito Yamamoto
Mohamed Jamal Eddin Mabruk
Momiao Xiong
Moonseong Heo
Moustafa Omar Ahmed Abu-Shawiesh
Muhammad Nur Aidi
Nasir Mushtaq
Noor Azina Ismail
O. Baser
Oleg Mayba
Orjan Hallberg
Petros Pechlivanoglou
Preetam Mahajan
Qiang (Shawn) Cheng
Rahul Saxena
Renan M V R Almeida
Richa Srivastava
Richard J. Butler
Robert Sheen
Ruiguang Song
Satoru Haresaku
Satyanshu K Upadhyay
Sinan Bardakci Sarac
Sognfeng Wang
Steven D. Edland
Tadayuki Matsuo
Takashi Hanioka
Venant Tchokonte-Nana
Vijay K Shukla
Wenfei Zhang
Wilfried Karmaus
Xiang Huang
Xiaoqin (Amy) Tang
Yang "Eric" Liu
Yichuan Zhao
Yogesh Kumar
Yonghong Peng
Zhang Wenfei
Zihua Yang
Zuhair Bodalal
Zumin Shi

Authors

Reviewers

Juliana R Goncalves
John Hart
Steven D. Edland
Geert Molenberghs
Chih-Chun Kung
Thomas G. Duplinsky
I.C.A. Oyeka
Thomas G. Duplinsky
Wlodzimierz Borkowski
Zihua Yang
M. Ganjali
M. Tariqul Hasan*
Niccolò Bassani
Bin Xie
Renato De Vecchis
Renan Moritz V.R. Almeida
Renato De Vecchis
Andy Vail
Bin Xie
O. Baser
Chiara Seghieri
Bernard Omolo
Takashi Hanioka
Muhammad Nur Aidi
Genevieve Fridlund Dunton
Bruno Falissard
Handan Ankarali
Cletus Kwa Kum
Moonseong Heo
Heather G. Allore
Prafulla Kumar Swain
George Katharakis
Dorota Zdanowska Girard
Alka Sabharwal
Samaneh Maleknia
O. Garcia-Algar
Gary Sneddon
Venant Tchokonte-Nana
Masaru Teramoto
Örjan Hallberg
Bryan McIntosh
Dr. Kevin Deluzio
Diklah Geva
Christine Eulenburg
Maciej Wojciech Pilecki
C. Engel
Mahmood Mahmoodi
Rui Feng
Qingxia Chen
Hsiao-Hui Tsou
Aihie Osarenkhoe
Ruiguang Song
Akiyoshi Kinoshita
Michelle Sims
Mehmet Tolga Taner
Sevgi Yurt Oncel
Salam Shantikumar Singh
Norou Diawara
Michelle Y. Wang
Haibo Zhou
Trevor F. Cox
Kimberly R. Barber
Peter Congdon
Sowmya R. Rao
Mei-Ling Ting Lee
Marc C. Hochberg
Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty
Ghazi Shukur
Francesco Cozzolino
Asanao Shimokawa
Dexiang Gao
Richard J. Jackson
Marco Iosa
Ann O. Amuta
Mingyu Li
Matthias Kohl
Richard J. Butler
Alessio Farcomeni
Matthias Kohl
Abdol-Mohammad Kajbafzadeh
H. Mannan
Richa Srivastava
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
M. Ganjali
Mehmet Tolga Taner
K.J. Kachiashvili
Eugene Seneta
B.M. Golam Kibria
Yared Seyoum
M.K. Sharma
Zuhir Bodalal
Richard J Jackson
Sengul CANGUR
Saiedeh Haji-Maghsoudi
Paul Hewson
A. Lemanska
B. M. Golam Kibria
James F. Antaki
Ruu-Fen Tzang

Alan Stark
Cicchetti, Domenic-
Zhang wenfei
Xiang Huang
B. Popovic
D. Jiang
José Afonso
A.D. Blann
Alexander Bulinski
Richard J. Butler
Marco Iosa
Noor Azina Ismail
Maria Katharaki
Matthias Kohl
Christos Koukouvinos
Guojun Li
John Lam Hiu Ming
Nasir Mushtaq
José Antonio Roldán Nofuentes
Petros Pechlivanoglou
Zumin Shi
Mauricio F. Silva
Ruiguang Song
Vladimir Spokoiny
Xiaoqin (Amy) Tang
Michel Vaillant
Songfeng Wang
Momiao Xiong
Jiyuan Zhou
Daichi Hayashi

Volume 3 No.4, 2014

* This issue includes papers published with

A Robust Parameterization for Unbounded Covariates Within the Cox Proportional Hazards Model - Pages 331-339
Richard J. Jackson and Trevor F. Cox
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.1

Application of Survival Tree Based on Texture Features Obtained through MRI of Patients with Brain Metastases from Breast Cancer - Pages 340-347
Asanao Shimokawa, Yoshitaka Narita, Soichiro Shibui and Etsuo Miyaoka
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.2

Graphical Investigation of Threshold Choice Effect on Odds Ratio Related to Prognostic Factors in Stroke Recovery - Pages 348-355
Marco Iosa, Giovanni Morone, Augusto Fusco and Stefano Paolucci
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.3

Estimating the Population Standard Deviation with Confidence Interval: A Simulation Study under Skewed and Symmetric Conditions - Pages 356-367
Shipra Banik, Ahmed N. Albatineh, Moustafa Omar Ahmed Abu-Shawiesh and B.M. Golam Kibria
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.4

Determinants of Wasting Among Under-Five Children in Ethiopia: (A Multilevel Logistic Regression Model Approach) - Pages 368-377
Gutu Adugna Dabale and M.K Sharma
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.5

Imputation of Missing Data for a Continuous Variable with an Ordinal form of Risk Function: When to Apply the Transformation? - Pages 378-383
Mohammad Reza Baneshi, Behshid Garrusi and Saiedeh Haji-Maghsoudi
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.6

Avoiding Inferential Errors in Public Health Research: The Statistical Modelling of Physical Activity Behavior - Pages 384-391
Ann O. Amuta and Dudley Poston Jr.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.7

LQAS in Health Monitoring – Insights from a Bayesian Perspective - Pages 392-403
David Kwamena Mensah and Paul Hewson
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.8

Examining the Probabilities of Type I Error for Unadjusted All Pairwise Comparisons and Bonferroni Adjustment Approaches in Hypothesis Testing for Proportions - Pages 404-411
Sengul Cangur and Handan Ankaralı
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.9

Predictive Modelling of Patient Reported Radiotherapy-Related Toxicity by the Application of Symptom Clustering and Autoregression - Pages 412-422
A. Lemanska, A. Cox, N.F. Kirkby, T. Chen and S. Faithfull
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.10

Development of Predictive Models for Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Patients using Bayesian Networks - Pages 423-434
Natasha A. Loghmanpour, Manreet K. Kanwar, Raymond L. Benza, Srinivas Murali and James F. Antaki
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.11

Increasing Early Awareness of Hazard of Children with ADHD’s ODD and Aggression by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) - Pages 435-443
Ruu-Fen Tzang, Chuan-Hsin Chang and Yue-Cune Chang
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.04.12

Volume 3 No.3, 2014

* This issue includes papers published with

Comparison of Methods for Clustered Data Analysis in a Non-Ideal Situation: Results from an Evaluation of Predictors of Yellow Fever Vaccine Refusal in the Global TravEpiNet (GTEN) Consortium - Pages 215-223
Sowmya R. Rao, Regina C. LaRocque, Emily S. Jentes, Stefan H.F. Hagmann, Edward T. Ryan, Pauline V. Han, David G. Kleinbaum and Global TravEpiNet Consortium
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.1

Association between Obesity, Race and Knee Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study - Pages 224-230
Xin He, Xiaoxiao Lu, Shuo Chen, Marc C. Hochberg and Mei-Ling Ting Lee
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.2

Comparative Risk-Benefit Analysis of Different Classes of Biologic Agents in Patients with Psoriasis: A Case Study on the Pros and Cons of Mixed Treatment Comparison in Synthesizing Complex Evidence Networks - Pages 231-247
Mariangela Peruzzi, Delia Colombo, Isotta Chimenti, Elena De Falco, Antonio Abbate, Giacomo Frati and Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.3

Predicting Risks of Increased Morbidity among Atrial Fibrillation Patients using Consumption Classes - Pages 248-256
Peter Congdon, Qiang Cai, Gary Puckrein and Liou Xu
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.4

Improved Ridge Regression Estimators for Binary Choice Models: An Empirical Study - Pages 257-265
Kristofer Månsson, B.M. Golam Kibria and Ghazi Shukur
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.5

Research Article: Survival Analysis of Under Five Mortality in Rural Parts of Ethiopia - Pages 266-281
Yared Seyoum and M.K. Sharma
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.6

Forecasting Rate of Decline in Infant Mortality in South Asia Using Random Walk Approximation - Pages 282-290
Tapan Kumar Chakrabarty
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.7

Total Hip and Knee Replacement in Eastern Libya: A Post-Conflict Case Series - Pages 291-297
Eman Elzwai, Rasha Elhnid, Zuhir Bodalal, Mustafa El Fadli and Salem Langhi
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.8

Conditional Two Level Mixture with Known Mixing Proportions: Applications to School and Student Level Overweight and Obesity Data from Birmingham, England - Pages 298-308
Shakir Hussain, Mehdi AL-Alak and Ghazi Shukur
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.9

The Current State of Validation of Administrative Healthcare Databases in Italy: A Systematic Review - Pages 309-320
Iosief Abraha, Massimiliano Orso, Piero Grilli, Francesco Cozzolino, Paolo Eusebi, Paola Casucci, Mauro Marchesi, Maria Laura Luchetta, Luisa Fruttini, Raoul Ciappelloni, Rita De Florio, Gianni Giovannini and Alessandro Montedori
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.10

A Simple Approach to Sample Size Calculation for Count Data in Matched Cohort Studies - Pages 321-330
Dexiang Gao, Gary K. Grunwald and Stanley Xu
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.03.11

Volume 3 No.2, 2014

* This issue includes papers published with

Biologic Therapy for Psoriatic Arthritis or Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis: Systematic Review with Pairwise and Network Meta-Analysis - Pages 74-87
Mariangela Peruzzi, Delia Colombo, Elena De Falco, Isotta Chimenti, Antonio Abbate, Giacomo Frati and Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.1

The Bivariate Erlang and its Application in Modeling Recurrence Times of Kidney Dialysis Data - Pages 88-93
Norou Diawara, S.H. Sathish Indika, Melva Grant and Edgard M. Maboudou-Tchao
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.2

Deployment of Six Sigma Methodology in Pars Plana Vitrectomy - Pages 94-102
Ibrahim Sahbaz, Mehmet Tolga Taner, Huseyin Sanisoglu, Taner Kar, Gamze Kagan, Ebubekir Durmus, Meltem Tunca, Engin Erbas, Ilker Armagan and Mehmet Kemal Kagan
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.3

A Bayesian Shared Parameter Model for Analysing Longitudinal Skewed Responses with Nonignorable Dropout - Pages 103-115
M. Ganjali and T. Baghfalaki
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.4

The Influence of Family Factors on Smoking Behavior in Turkey - Pages 116-125
Sevgi Yurt Oncel and Fazil Aliev
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.5

Adoption of Six Sigma’s DMAIC to Reduce Complications in IntraLase Surgeries - Pages 126-133
İbrahim Şahbaz, Mehmet Tolga Taner, Mustafa Eliaçık, Gamze Kağan and Engin Erbaş
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.6

Application of Cox’s Proportional Hazard Model and Construction of Life Table for Under-Five - Pages 134-144
Salam Shantikumar Singh
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.7

Efficient Blockwise Permutation Tests Preserving Exchangeability - Pages 145-152
Chunxiao Zhou, Chris E. Zwilling, Vince D. Calhoun and Michelle Y. Wang
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.8

An Independent and External Validation of the ACC NCDR Bleeding Risk Score among a National Multi-Site Community Hospital Registry of Cardiac Interventions - Pages 153-160
David R. Dobies, Kimberly R. Barber and Amanda L. Cohoon
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.9

Testing the Equivalence of Survival Distributions using PP- and PPP-Plots - Pages 161-173
Trevor F. Cox
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.10

Comparison of Some Methods of Testing Statistical Hypotheses: (Part I. Parallel Methods) - Pages 174-197
K.J. Kachiashvili
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.11

Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium as Foundational - Pages 198-202
Alan E. Stark and Eugene Seneta
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.12

Adjusting Complex Heterogeneity in Treatment Assignment in Observational Studies - Pages 203 -214
Jichang Yu, Haibo Zhou, Xianchen Liu, Fei Zou and Richard J. Willke
http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-6029.2014.03.02.13