Pharmacy

Pharmacy

1) The science and practice of the preparation and dispensing of medicinal drugs. 2) A store where medicinal drugs are dispensed and sold.

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A desirable characteristic of a statistic that estimates a population parameter, meaning that its variance or standard deviation is less than that of another statistic; ie, the sample mean ( ) has a ...

Outcomes

Health care; Pharmacy

* The actual results of interventions involving drug therapies. * Can have characteristics that are economic (i.e., cost), social/behavioral (i.e., patient preferences), or physiological and ...

Hosmer and lemeshow's goodness of fit test

Health care; Pharmacy

A multivariate test used to test the significance of the overall results from a logistic regression analysis.

Person-years

Health care; Pharmacy

A common unit for measuring person-time; one person-year corresponds to one person being followed for one year, or alternatively, two persons each followed for one half year, and so forth.