Ritchie Shoemaker,MD and his team at the Center for Research on Biotoxin Associated Illness had collected data for patients that had been exposed to mold.  The datasets were failry complex as the number and types of lab tests had evolved with his understanding of the illness.  We worked with Dr. Shoemaker to collate his data into appropriate formats and performed various analysis including Principal Components Analysis (PCS) and Logistic Regression. 

We modeled the data in over 10 different ways using Logistic Regression, which in the end, proved to be an especially useful technique.  We also worked with CRBAI to understand the analysis results and co-authored a paper which has been submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal.  As a next step, we are working with CRBAI to design a study having a larger group of optimal controls.

The Center for Research on Biotoxin Associated Illness requested that we build a web-based screening tool and website, which would be based on the analysis and subsequent publications.  We designed an on-line test that allows patients to input their symptoms, and take an on-line Visual Contrast Sensitivity (VCS) test, and those entries are used in the logistical regression analysis to help identify high risk biotoxin exposures.  Have a look around at:  http://www.biotoxin.info