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1. Five-year reintervention after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the Vascular Quality Initiative: (Publication); Objective: Patients who undergo endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVR) remain at risk for reintervention and rupture. We sought to define the 5-year rate of reintervention and rupture after ...; Created on 25 September 2019
2. Treatment with tenofovir alafenamide fumarate worsens the lipid profile of HIV-infected patients versus treatment with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, each coformulated with elvitegravir, cobicistat, and ...: (Publication); Two elvitegravir/cobicistat-based therapies combined with emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (EVG/c/FTC/TDF) or emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide fumarate (EVG/c/FTC/TAF) are currently available ...; Created on 24 September 2019
3. A two-sample test for the equality of univariate marginal distributions for high-dimensional data: (Publication); A recurring theme in modern statistics is dealing with high-dimensional data whose main feature is a large number, p, of variables but a small sample size. In this context our aim is to address the problem ...; Created on 23 September 2019
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Testing for the Poisson-Tweedie distribution: (Publication); In practice, count data exhibit over-dispersion, zero-inflation and even heavy tails. The Poisson–Tweedie distribution is a flexible parametric family able to accommodate these features. This paper proposes ...; Created on 09 October 2018
8. 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
9. 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
10. Approximating the null distribution of a class of statistics for testing independence: (Publication); A class of tests for testing independence whose test statistic is an -norm of the difference between the joint empirical characteristic function and the product of the marginal empirical characteristic ...; Created on 09 October 2018
11. A two-sample test for the error distribution in nonparametric regression based on the characteristic function: (Publication); A test for the equality of error distributions in two nonparametric regression models is proposed. The test statistic is based on comparing the empirical characteristic functions of the residuals calculated ...; Created on 09 October 2018
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. Quantile regression and its empirical likelihood with missing response at random ...: (Publication); ... and define standard quantile regression estimator of unknown parameter. At the same time, we construct the empirical likelihood (EL) ratio function for the unknown parameter, and define the maximum EL ...; Created on 01 October 2018
17. 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
18. Asymptotic distribution-free tests for semiparametric regressions with dependent data: (Publication); This article proposes a new general methodology for constructing nonparametric and semiparametric Asymptotically Distribution-Free (ADF) tests for semiparametric hypotheses in regression models for possibly ...; Created on 22 May 2018
19. 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
20. On the estimation of the characteristic function in finite populations with applications: (Publication); This paper studies the estimation of the characteristic function of a finite population. Specifically, the weak convergence of the finite population empirical characteristic process is studied. Under suitable ...; Created on 14 May 2018
21. Computationally Efficient Goodness-of-Fit Tests for the Error Distribution in Nonparametric Regression: (Publication); Several procedures have been proposed for testing goodness-of-fit to the error distribution in nonparametric regression models. The null distribution of the associated test statistics is usually approximated ...; Created on 14 May 2018
22. 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
23. A weighted estimator of conditional hazard rate with left-truncated and dependent data: (Publication); Based on empirical likelihood method, we construct new weighted estimators of conditional density and conditional survival functions when the interest random variable is subject to random left-truncation; ...; Created on 24 January 2018
24. Hypothesis test on response mean with inequality constraints under data missing when covariables are present: (Publication); ... to test single point, two points, set of inequalities as well as two-sided set of inequalities of the response mean. The test statistics is constructed by the weighted-corrected empirical likelihood function ...; Created on 22 May 2018
25. Jackknife empirical likelihood of error variance in partially linear varying-coefficient errors-in-variables models ...: (Publication); ... same time, we construct Jackknife estimator as well as Jackknife empirical likelihood statistic of the error variance. Under both the response variables and their associated covariates form a stationary ...; Created on 22 May 2018
26. Empirical characteristic function tests for GARCH innovation distribution using multipliers: (Publication); Goodness-of-fit tests for the innovation distribution in GARCH models based on measuring deviations between the empirical characteristic function of the residuals and the characteristic function under ...; Created on 23 January 2018
27. Comparison of two discrimination indexes in the categorisation of continuous predictors in time-to-event studies: (Publication); The Cox proportionalhazards model is the most widely used survival predictionmodel for analysing time-to-event data. To measure the discrimination ability of a survival model the concordance probability ...; Created on 18 September 2017
28. Measuring the efficiency of the Spanish Olympic Sports Federations: (Publication); Research question: The most common result in the analysis of efficiency in multisport competitions like the Olympic Games using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a ranking of the participating countries. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
29. Receiver operating characteristic curve generalization for non-monotone relationships: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic curve is a popular graphical method frequently used in order to study the diagnostic capacity of continuous markers. It represents in a plot true-positive rates against ...; Created on 18 September 2017
30. Convergence rate of wavelet density estimator with data missing randomly when covariables are present: (Publication); In this article, we study global L2 error of non linear wavelet estimator of density in the Besov space Bspq for missing data model when covariables are present and prove that the estimator can achieve ...; Created on 18 September 2017
31. Minimum distance estimators for count data based on the probability generating function with applications: (Publication); This paper studies properties of parameter estimators obtained by minimizing a distance between the empirical probability generating function and the probability generating function of a model for count ...; Created on 18 September 2017
32. The power Muth distribution: (Publication); Muth introduced a probability distribution with application in reliability theory. We propose a new model from the Muth law. This paper studies its statistical properties, such as the computation of the ...; Created on 18 September 2017
33. Fast tests for the two-sample problem based on the empirical characteristic function: (Publication); A class of tests for the two-sample problem whose test statistic is an L2 norm of the difference of the empirical characteristic functions of the samples is considered. The null distribution can be estimated ...; Created on 18 September 2017
34. A class of tests for the two-sample problem for count data: (Publication); A class of tests for the two-sample problem for count data whose test statistic is an L2-norm of the difference between the empirical probability generating functions associated with each sample is considered. ...; Created on 18 September 2017
35. New asymptotic inferences about the difference, ratio, and linear combination of two independent proportions: (Publication); In statistics it is customary to realize asymptotic inferences about the difference d, the ratio R or a linear combination L of two independent proportions. In this article the authors evaluate ten inference ...; Created on 18 September 2017
36. 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 18 September 2017
37. Deformation analysis in tunnels through curve clustering: (Publication); Deformations in tunnels and galleries due to confinement pressures can occur continuously but also at discrete time intervals. We propose a methodology to detect discrete significant deformations in tunnels ...; Created on 18 September 2017
38. Penalized empirical likelihood for high-dimensional partially linear varying coefficient model with measurement errors ...: (Publication); ... corrected empirical log-likelihood ratio function and maximum empirical likelihood estimator of the regression parameter. At the same time, based on penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) approach, the parameter ...; Created on 08 September 2017
39. Revisiting environmental Kuznets curves through the energy price lens: (Publication); The goal of this paper is to provide new insights to elucidate the inconclusive results from the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) empirical literature. For the first time in empirical literature, an econometric ...; Created on 08 September 2017
40. Fourier methods for model selection: (Publication); A test approach to the model selection problem based on characteristic functions (CFs) is proposed. The scheme is close to that proposed by Vuong (Econometrica 57:257–306, 1989), which is based on comparing ...; Created on 04 November 2016
41. A goodness-of-fit test for the multivariate Poisson distribution: (Publication); Bivariate count data arise in several different disciplines and the bivariate Poisson distribution is commonly used to model them. This paper proposes and studies a computationally convenient goodness-of-fit ...; Created on 04 November 2016
42. Model checks for nonparametric regression with missing data: a comparative study: (Publication); This paper analyses the behaviour of the goodness-of-fit tests for regression models. To this end, it uses statistics based on an estimation of the integrated regression function with missing observations ...; Created on 04 November 2016
43. Fast smoothing parameter separation in multidimensional P-splines: The SAP algorithm: (Publication); A new computational algorithm for estimating the smoothing parameters of a multidimensional penalized spline generalized linear model with anisotropic penalty is presented. This new proposal is based on ...; Created on 01 September 2017
44. An approximation to the null distribution of a class of Cramer-von Mises statistics: (Publication); A class of goodness-of-fit tests of the Cramer-von Mises type is considered. More specifically, the test statistic of each test is an L-2-norm of the difference between the empirical characteristic function ...; Created on 01 September 2017
45. Estimation of the sample size n based on record values: (Publication); In this paper, two new maximum likelihood methods are proposed to estimate the unknown sample size n in a simple random sample from an absolutely continuous population. These methods are based on the number ...; Created on 01 September 2017
46. Tests for the equality of conditional variance functions in nonparametric regression: (Publication); In this paper we are interested in checking whether the conditional variances are equal in k >= 2 location-scale regression models. Our procedure is fully nonparametric and is based on the comparison of ...; Created on 31 August 2017
47. A nonparametric ANOVA-type test for regression curves based on characteristic functions: (Publication); This article studies a new procedure to test for the equality of k regression curves in a fully non-parametric context. The test is based on the comparison of empirical estimators of the characteristic ...; Created on 31 August 2017
48. On the Muth Distribution: (Publication); The Muth distribution is a continuous random variable introduced in the context of reliability theory. In this paper, some mathematical properties of the model are derived, including analytical expressions ...; Created on 31 August 2017
49. Fast goodness-of-t tests based on the characteristic function: (Publication); A class of goodness-of-fit tests whose test statistic is an L-2 norm of the difference of the empirical characteristic function of the sample and a parametric estimate of the characteristic function in ...; Created on 31 August 2017
50. Goodness-of-fit tests for a semiparametric model under random double truncation: (Publication); Doubly truncated data are commonly encountered in areas like medicine, astronomy, economics, among others. A semiparametric estimator of a doubly truncated random variable may be computed based on a parametric ...; Created on 04 September 2017