*Geek Box: Confounders, Correlations, and Control There is a tendency when it comes to interpreting epidemiological findings to dismiss any related …
*Geek Box: Melatonin
*Geek Box: Melatonin Hearing terms like ‘circadian phase’ or ‘biological night’ can be confusing, particularly where we think of time …
*Geek Box: Area Under the Curve
*Geek Box: Area Under the Curve If you read research, you’ll come across the commonly used term ‘area under the curve’, …
*Geek Box: ALA and DHA as EFAs
*Geek Box: ALA and DHA as Essential Fatty Acids Up to 60% of the brain’s dry weight is comprised of …
*Geek Box: A Priori Indices in Nutritional Epidemiology
*Geek Box: Dietary Pattern Scores Most approaches to dietary assessment in nutritional epidemiology focus on foods and nutrients as the …
*Geek Box: Block Randomisation
*Geek Box: Block Randomisation The most basic form of randomising subjects is simple randomization, which involves dividing subjects at random …
*Geek Box: ITT Analysis
*Geek Box: Intention to Treat Analysis In a randomised controlled trial, it is important to match both arms of the …
*Geek Box: Ad Libitum Diets
*Geek Box: Ad Libitum Diets What does ‘ad libitum’ mean in research? The Latin for “at one’s pleasure”, the formal …
*Geek Box: Foods vs. Formulas
*Geek Box: Foods vs. Formulas One issue facing nutrition is when the outcome of interest is a nutrient, for example …
*Geek Box: The ‘ALP’
*Geek Box: The ‘Atherogenic Lipoprotein Phenotype’ The ‘atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype’ is the technical term describing a particular pattern of blood …