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The topic #19 on page 343; The specific 95 % confidence interval presented by a study has a 95 % chance of containing the true effect size.

What I understand about confidence interval is it tells how much observed data (in percentage) that lie between a specific range of observed data from a group (either effect or control) of a study, while…[Read more]

1. Introduce yourself about your background, what kind of work you are doing that related to statistics.

I work for an insurance company’s claim department. My daily routine rarely uses statistic, except when I make a monthly/yearly claim payment report that I have to use some basic descriptive statistics.

2. Have you ever learned or applied s…[Read more]

I think a study which has very specific participants or in small numbers is to be awarded about identifiable of person. For example, a study on the mental health of health professions in healthcare settings in levels and sizes which study areas and type of professions are stratified. Some study area may have only a healthcare provider and have…[Read more]

Agreed, in interviewing, sometime participant doesn’t aware or may deliberately omit about an important topic which could lead the researcher to the root cause. Observation can help resolve the bias. I think if researchers want to do the method they should have a plan about the period of time for the observation and how they could be part of the…[Read more]

If the result is from a study in a rural area, I’d use Focus Group Discussion (FGD) combined with an in-depth interview to find out why they are not using bednets. First, I would do an IDI with key informants from the community such as village leader or village health volunteer on the general issue about the bednets in the community and also…[Read more]

An external factor that I can think about apart from what explained in the TAM2 is TIMELINESS. The WFH system has been introduced for a long time but immediately getting popular because of the pandemic. It has been cleared because of perceived usefulness.
People decided to take the WFH because they thought it is useful. When they have experience…[Read more]

Replacing technology might come with purposes such as cost reduction, version changes, contract changes or improved process requirement. According to TAM, apart from external variables, perceived usefulness is also influenced by perceived ease of use. If the user believes that the new one is easy to use, it can influence the belief that the new…[Read more]

If working from the home system (set of hardware and software adopted to facilitate working from home) could be called a new technology, I think, Personal Life Affects and Primary System/Responsible Affects, might be some of the external factors that influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, I think many o…[Read more]

I think Steve Jobs is a person who was born gifted with a set of soft skills and into the right time of human history. Back then in the middle of 80s, when the Macintosh, the world’s first home computer, was introduced, the world was still in the cold war where the world was in the atmosphere of conflict between the two political opposition.…[Read more]

The intrinsic motivation which I would like to call it “Passion” is actually not a long term and cannot be one and only to make us more productive and to help us drive our teamwork. We all are used to the term and we all used to hear that people are lost of passion for sometimes or when they get growing in life or profession. Lossing of passion…[Read more]

A short explanation for the three terms can be explained by the drug developments/study. The three terms are used in a different kind of study during the development due to its different goals, tools, and messages the researcher wants to communicate.

‘Efficacy’ is a term used in the study under ‘ideal conditions’ such as in laboratory to ans…[Read more]

Title :
Case-Control Study of Use of Personal Protective Measures and Risk for SARS-CoV 2 Infection, Thailand

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-3003_article

Main objectives of the study
To evaluate the effectiveness of personal protective measures against SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Main exposure variable of interest
Both of the cases and…[Read more]

Title :
Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18366252/

Main objectives of the study
To determine contacts patterns that relevant to infectious disease transmitted by respiratory or close contacts route.

The sampling method used in the study.
This study was conducted…[Read more]

I have to accepts that I am sometimes a commanding style of a leader because it’s easy to ask people to do things. You don’t have to make sure they get a deeper understanding of your order. However, when time passed, I got some lesson that It’s not a sustainable way of leading. My junior would never be able to do anything without me and I had…[Read more]

Stepping out of the comfort zone is hard and require a lot of internal courage. Throughout my life, I had decided to not live life the same so many times. The very first one is when I was 15. I decided to move to another school for the last three year of high school. It’s not only moving to another school but to other provinces where people s…[Read more]

Title
Facilitating the re-opening of Thailand with health IT if the vaccine is unavailable: Modelling of meta-population transmission dynamic of COVID-19 in the quarantine-free Thailand implementing of health IT involved strategies to cross border travel.

General Objectives
To predict COVID-19 transmission dynamic in Thailand using mathematical…[Read more]

A key point I got from the TEDtalk is being open-minded is critical for listening. Listening is not the same as hearing. To listen we have to make our mind free of noise. The noise in our mind is the desire to respond and to judge. We hear only what is said but not to what is not. Listening requires a deeper understanding of the meaning which…[Read more]

I would like to raise “Being in higher education” as a confounder for this study. The young adult can be the group of people age 18-25 years old which mostly being in education ranging from advanced vocational education to undergraduate, postgraduate, and non-formal education and apprenticeships. This could be a criterion for confounder as…[Read more]

Project: What do ‘Netizen’ aware and prefer toward the privacy of personal health data (PHD)?: Sharing of personal health data in health research and public health program via online-platforms.
1. Chosen choice of sharing of personal health data – Multiple categories variable – Summarized as proportion
2. Past participation in health research – D…[Read more]

The intervention I have added to my model is using health IT to support surveillance and monitoring of the disease. The intervention is characterised by its effectiveness tracing people how might be exposed to the viruses and also communicated with the target group through messaging features. The values used for the parameter is assumed to be 0.99.