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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
8. Medical Applications II
Authors : Chandrasekhar Putcha, Subhrajit Dutta, Sanjay K. Gupta
Published in: Reliability and Risk Analysis in Engineering and Medicine
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This chapter deals with Although the book focuses on the reliability aspects of statistical domain, but other statistical techniques also find significant utility in the studies of medical science problems. Clinical interventions, uses of drugs, quantity of doses, frequency of dose intake, duration for taking up dose and treatment protocols are usually specified with the help of statistical analysis and consequential inferences. This chapter analyses the effect of clinical intervention (multimodal group therapy) on the post-traumatic stress (PTS) index determined for general population. Correlations between PTS index and psychological/ social manifestations such as substance abuse, self-medication, divorce and suicide are investigated using the correlation and regression analyses.