> You can use a single measurement to make disease risk assessment, -- > there are lots of papers on this eg single random blood glucose criteria > for diabetes, single blood pressure reading for hypertension, single > cholesterol measurement for CHD risk.
Thanks, you are right, I was able to find alot of info on this. It is extremely important and relevant in many areas, so it has been published about alot. Adjustment for regression dilution in epidemiological regression analyses Knuiman MW, Divitini ML, Buzas JS, Fitzgerald PEB ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 8 (1): 56-63 JAN 1998 this topic is interesting even for general practice where you are often relying on single measurements of your patient compared to usually single measurements of maybe corrected population distributions.. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
