Adil Omar Bahathiq Author
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Umm Al-Qura University, Department College of Medicine
Umm Al-Qura University Department College of Medicine his Skills Antibodies, Western Blot Analysis, Gel Electrophoresis, Activins, Follistatin his latest publication involves The Effectiveness of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in the Emotions of Pregnant Women in Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Adil Omar Bahathiq
Reliable appraisal of risk factor exposure is a prerequisite for efficient prevention. A street survey conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, included questions for measuring the prevalence of tobacco smoking. When entering the data, occurrence of long sex specific sequences of questionnaires suggested non-random sampling. The objective of this paper was to propose a method for diagnosing non-randomness, and measuring its impact on the prevalence of smoking and on the quality of collected data. The distribution of the length of observed sequences of questionnaires collected among male respondents was compared with expected length under the hypothesis of random selection. For groups of sequences with significant difference between observed and expected length, two specific categories were se... view moreĀ»