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1. Testing for superiority between two variance functions: (Publication); This paper focuses on the problem of testing the null hypothesis that the variance functions of two populations are equal versus one-sided alternatives under a general nonparametric heteroscedastic regression ...; Created on 16 September 2019
2. Traditional Processed Meat Products Re-designed Towards Inulin-rich Functional Foods Reduce Polyps in Two Colorectal Cancer Animal Models: (Publication); Inulin-rich foods exert a prebiotic effect, as this polysaccharide is able to enhance beneficial colon microbiota populations, giving rise to the in situ production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) such ...; Created on 22 November 2019
3. Methylation Assessment for the Prediction of Malignancy in Mediastinal Adenopathies Obtained by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in Patients with Lung Cancer: (Publication); The evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes is critical for the correct staging of patients with lung cancer (LC). Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally ...; Created on 26 September 2019
4. Effects of Family History on Relative and Absolute Risks for Colorectal Cancer: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: (Publication); BACKGROUND & AIMS: Guidelines recommend individuals with familial colorectal cancer (FCC) to undergo colonoscopy surveillance instead of average-risk screening. However, these recommendations vary widely. ...; Created on 26 September 2019
5. Addition of a 161-SNP polygenic risk score to family history-based risk prediction: Impact on clinical management in non- BRCA1/2 breast cancer families: (Publication); Background The currently known breast cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are presently not used to guide clinical management. We explored whether a genetic test that incorporates ...; Created on 26 September 2019
6. The apparent genetic anticipation in PMS2-associated lynch syndrome families is explained by birth-cohort effect: (Publication); Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...; Created on 26 September 2019
7. On the optimism correction of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve in logistic prediction models: (Publication); When the same data are used to fit a model and estimate its predictive performance, this estimate may be optimistic, and its correction is required. The aim of this work is to compare the behaviour of ...; Created on 25 September 2019
8. On horizontal cooperation in linear production processes with a supplier that controls a limited resource: (Publication); In this paper we consider a two-echelon supply chain with one supplier that controls a limited resource and a finite set of manufacturers who need to purchase this resource. We analyze the effect of the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
9. A Multistate Model for Analyzing Transitions Between Body Mass Index Categories During Childhood: The Generation XXI Birth Cohort Study: (Publication); Prevalences of overweight and obesity in young children have risen dramatically in the last several decades in most developed countries. Childhood overweight and obesity are known to have immediate and ...; Created on 25 September 2019
10. Adjusting for bias introduced by instrumental variable estimation in the Cox proportional hazards model: (Publication); Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used for estimating average treatment effects in the presence of unmeasured confounders. However, the capability of existing IV procedures, and most notably ...; Created on 25 September 2019
11. CLT for integrated square error of density estimators with censoring indicators missing at random: (Publication); A popular stochastic measure of the distance between the density of the lifetimes and its estimator is the integrated square error (ISE) and Hellinger distance (HD). In this paper, we focus on the right-censored ...; Created on 25 September 2019
12. Asymptotic normality of conditional density estimation under truncated, censored and dependent data: (Publication); In this paper, we focus on the left-truncated and right-censored model, and construct the local linear and Nadaraya-Watson type estimators of the conditional density. Under suitable conditions, we establish ...; Created on 25 September 2019
13. Erectile dysfunction in patients with arterial hypertension. Cardiovascular risk and impact on their quality of life: (Publication); Objectives: Estimate the frequency of erectile dysfunction in patients with essential hypertension and associated variables, degree of control, cardiovascular risk and the impact on quality of life. Material ...; Created on 24 September 2019
14. Late HIV Diagnosis but Earlier Antiretroviral Treatment Initiation in Northwest Spain: Impact of Current Treatment Guidelines: (Publication); Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...; Created on 24 September 2019
15. Discovery of an autoantibody signature for the early diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative: (Publication); Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...; Created on 24 September 2019
16. Plug-in marginal estimation under a general regression model with missing responses and covariates: (Publication); In this paper, we consider a general regression model where missing data occur in the response and in the covariates. Our aim is to estimate the marginal distribution function and a marginal functional, ...; Created on 24 September 2019
17. Goodness-of-fit tests for quantile regression with missing responses: (Publication); Goodness–of–fit tests for quantile regression models, in the presence of missing observations in the response variable, are introduced and analyzed in this paper. The different proposals are based on the ...; Created on 19 September 2019
18. Predicting pollution incidents through semiparametric quantile regression models: (Publication); In this paper we present a method to forecast pollution episodes using measurements of the pollutant concentration along time. Specifically, we use a backfitting algorithm with local polynomial kernel ...; Created on 18 September 2019
19. On goodness-of-fit tests for the Bell distribution: (Publication); The one-parameter Bell family of distributions, introduced by Castellares et al. (Appl Math Model 56:172–185, 2018), is useful for modeling count data. This paper proposes and studies a goodness-of-fit ...; Created on 17 September 2019
20. Estimation in the progressive illness-death model: a non-exhaustive review: (Publication); Multistate models can be successfully used for describing complex event history data, for example, describing stages in the disease progression of a patient. The so‐called “illness‐death” model plays a ...; Created on 23 August 2019
21. The apparent genetic anticipation effect in PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome families is explained by birth-cohort effect: (Publication); Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...; Created on 23 August 2019
22. Testing critical points of nonparametric regression curves: application to the management of stalked barnacles: (Publication); Several aquatic living resources are overexploited. An example of this is a barnacle fishery, which is a commercial species that commands high prices in the market. We feel that not enough is known about ...; Created on 23 August 2019
23. Circulating microRNAs in suspected stable coronary artery disease: A coronary computed tomography angiography study: (Publication); Objectives To explore the diagnostic performance of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) as biomarkers in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods Plasma samples were collected ...; Created on 22 August 2019
24. Plasma microRNA Profiling Reveals Novel Biomarkers of Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Multidetector Computed Tomography Study: (Publication); Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) constitutes a novel parameter for cardiometabolic risk assessment and a target for therapy. Here, we evaluated for the first time the plasma microRNA (miRNA) profile as ...; Created on 22 August 2019
25. Adverse Events After Atherectomy: Analyzing Long‐Term Outcomes of Endovascular Lower Extremity Revascularization Techniques: (Publication); Background The long-term effectiveness of atherectomy treatment for peripheral arterial disease is unknown. We studied 5-year clinical outcomes by endovascular treatment type among patients with peripheral ...; Created on 22 August 2019
26. Long-term Reintervention After Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: (Publication); Objective: To describe the long-term reintervention rate after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVR), and identify factors predicting reintervention. Summary of Background Data: EVR is ...; Created on 22 August 2019
27. Goodness-of-fit tests for disorder detection in NGS experiments: (Publication); Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) experiments are often performed in biomedical research nowadays, leading to methodological challenges related to the high‐dimensional and complex nature of the recorded ...; Created on 06 August 2019
28. A new semantic-based feature selection method for spam filtering: (Publication); The Internet emerged as a powerful infrastructure for the worldwide communication and interaction of people. Some unethical uses of this technology (for instance spam or viruses) generated challenges in ...; Created on 15 January 2019
29. A hybrid ARIMA–SVM model for the study of the remaining useful life of aircraft engines: (Publication); In this research, an algorithm is presented for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of aircraft engines from a set of predictor variables measured by several sensors located in the engine. RUL prediction ...; Created on 10 October 2018
30. A quantile regression model for bounded responses based on the exponential-geometric distribution: (Publication); The paper first introduces a new two-parameter continuous probability distribution with bounded support from the extended exponential-geometric distribution. Closed- form expressions are given for the ...; Created on 09 October 2018
31. A model specification test for the variance function in nonparametric regression: (Publication); The problem of testing for the parametric form of the conditional variance is considered in a fully nonparametric regression model. A test statistic based on a weighted L2-distance between the empirical ...; Created on 09 October 2018
32. A new class of tests for multinormality with i.i.d. and garch data based on the empirical moment generating function: (Publication); We generalize a recent class of tests for univariate normality that are based on the empirical moment generating function to the multivariate setting, thus obtaining a class of affine invariant, consistent ...; Created on 09 October 2018
33. Characterization of multinormality and corresponding tests of fit, including for GARCH models: (Publication); We provide novel characterizations of multivariate normality that incorporate both the characteristic function and the moment generating function, and we employ these results to construct a class of affine ...; Created on 09 October 2018
34. Estimation of the finite population distribution function using a global Estimation of the finite population distribution function using a global penalized calibration method: (Publication); Auxiliary information x is commonly used in survey sampling at the estimation stage. We propose an estimator of the finite population distribution function Fy(t) when x is available for all units in ...; Created on 09 October 2018
35. Body mass index transitions during childhood: a multiple-state model approach: (Publication); Introduction Childhood obesity is of major public health concern with significant health, social and economic impacts, having even potential to reverse the increase in longevity that has been observed. ...; Created on 06 March 2019
36. Weighted estimation of conditional mean function with truncated, censored and dependent data: (Publication); By applying the empirical likelihood method, we construct a new weighted estimator of the conditional mean function for a left-truncated and right-censored model. Assuming that the observations form a ...; Created on 11 October 2018
37. Injury prediction in aerobic gymnastics based on anthropometric variables: (Publication); Objective Use logistic regression to determine a mathematical model which is able to predict injuries in aerobic gymnastics (AG) athletes, according to certain anthropometric characteristics. Subjects ...; Created on 11 October 2018
38. Game-Related Statistics in the Spanish Water Polo League: Differences between Seasons: (Publication); The aim of this study was to identify the differences between seasons in men´s water polo regular competition by analysing the changes of game-related statistics. The sample comprised 88 games from the ...; Created on 11 October 2018
39. Bayesian nonparametric inference for the covariate-adjusted ROC curve: (Publication); Accurate diagnosis of disease is of fundamental importance in clinical practice and medical research. Before a medical diagnostic test is routinely used in practice, its ability to distinguish between ...; Created on 10 October 2018
40. Erectile dysfunction in patients with arterial hypertension. Cardiovascular risk and impact on their quality of life: (Publication); OBJECTIVES: Estimate the frequency of erectile dysfunction in patients with essential hypertension and associated variables, degree of control, cardiovascular risk and the impact on quality of life. MATERIAL ...; Created on 08 October 2018
41. Comments on "One-tailed asymptotic inferences for the difference of proportions: analysis of 97 methods of inference" by Alvarez Hernandez M, Martin Andres A and Herranz Tejedor I. (2018): (Publication); Two-tailed asymptotic inferences for the difference d = p2 − p1 with independent proportions have been widely studied in the literature. Nevertheless, the case of one tail has received less attention, ...; Created on 03 October 2018
42. MUL plus DO: a multicomponent index for the quick diagnosis of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients: (Publication); Peritoneal infection is a common problem that has a negative impact on the survival of patients and the technique. The early administration of peritoneal infection treatment reduces complications. The ...; Created on 01 October 2018
43. Quantile regression and its empirical likelihood with missing response at random: (Publication); In this paper, we study the linear quantile regression model when response data are missing at random. Based on the inverse probability weight method, we establish an estimation equation on quantile regression ...; Created on 01 October 2018
44. Penalized empirical likelihood for quantile regression with missing covariates and auxiliary information: (Publication); Based on the inverse probability weight method, we, in this article, construct the empirical likelihood (EL) and penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) ratios of the parameter in the linear quantile regression ...; Created on 01 October 2018
45. Minimum Penalized phi-Divergence Estimation under Model Misspecification: (Publication); This paper focuses on the consequences of assuming a wrong model for multinomial data when using minimum penalized phi-divergence, also known as minimum penalized disparity estimators, to estimate the ...; Created on 01 October 2018
46. Survival analysis with delayed entry in selected families with application to human longevity: (Publication); In the field of aging research, family-based sampling study designs are commonly used to study the lifespans of long-lived family members. However, the specific sampling procedure should be carefully taken ...; Created on 22 May 2018
47. Improving stability of prediction models based on correlated omics data by using network approaches: (Publication); Building prediction models based on complex omics datasets such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics remains a challenge in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Regularized regression techniques are ...; Created on 22 May 2018
48. Performance of BRCA1/2 mutation prediction models in male breast cancer patients: (Publication); To establish whether existing mutation prediction models can identify which male breast cancer (MBC) patients should be offered BRCA1 and BRCA2 diagnostic DNA screening, we compared the performance of ...; Created on 22 May 2018
49. Estimation of Transition Probabilities for the Illness-Death Model: Package TP.idm: (Publication); In this paper the R package TP.idm to compute an empirical transition probability matrix for the illness-death model is introduced. This package implements a novel non-parametric estimator which is particularly ...; Created on 14 May 2018
50. A non-iterative estimator for interval sampling and doubly truncated data: (Publication); This book is a tribute to Professor Pedro Gil, who created the Department of Statistics, OR and TM at the University of Oviedo, and a former President of the Spanish Society of Statistics and OR (SEIO). ...; Created on 16 March 2018