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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021

Challenges in forming inferences from limited data: a case study of malaria parasite maturation.

Madeline A E Peters, Megan A Greischar, Nicole Mideo

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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0citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Madeline A E PetersDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada.
Megan A GreischarDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Nicole MideoDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada.
University of Toronto · CACornell University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inferring biological processes from population dynamics is a common challenge in ecology, particularly when faced with incomplete data. This challenge extends to inferring parasite traits from within-host infection dynamics. We focus on rodent malaria infections (

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Biological PhenomenaMalariaParasitesAnimalsErythrocytesPlasmodium bergheicomputational biologycycle lengthmathematical biologymodellingPlasmodium

Identifiers

PMID33906391
PMCPMC8086907
OpenAlexW3159067647

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