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1. On interactive sequencing situations with exponential cost functions: (Publication); This paper addresses interactive one-machine sequencing situations in which the costs of processing a job are given by an exponential function of its completion time. The main difference with the standard ...; Created on 24 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. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Improving the biomarker diagnostic capacity via functional transformations: (Publication); The use of the area under the receiver-operating characteristic, ROC, curve (AUC) as an index of diagnostic accuracy is overwhelming in fields such as biomedical science and machine learning. It seems ...; Created on 22 August 2019
10. An instrumental variable procedure for estimating Cox models with non‐proportional hazards in the presence of unmeasured confounding: (Publication); Two‐stage instrumental variable methods are commonly used for estimating average causal effects in the presence of an unmeasured confounder. In the context of the proportional hazard Cox regression models, ...; Created on 22 August 2019
11. Algebra of generalized Hukuhara differentiable interval-valued functions: review and new properties: (Publication); This article deals with the algebra of gH-differentiable interval-valued functions. Specifically, we give conditions for the gH-differentiability of the sum and the gH-difference of two gH-differentiable ...; Created on 06 August 2019
12. Serum phosphate optimal timing and range associated with patients survival in haemodialysis: the COSMOS study: (Publication); Background Serum phosphate is a key parameter in the management of chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). The timing of phosphate measurement is not standardized in the current guidelines. ...; Created on 10 October 2018
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. On Interactive Sequencing Situations with Exponential Cost Functions: (Publication); This paper addresses interactive one-machine sequencing situations in which the costs of processinga job are given by an exponential function of its completion time. The main difference with thestandard ...; Created on 10 October 2018
22. Sustainable allocation of greenhouse gas emission permits for firms with Leontief technologies: (Publication); In this paper we deal with production situations where a cap or limit to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions permitted is imposed. Fixing a tax for each ton of pollutant emitted is also considered. ...; Created on 10 October 2018
23. 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
24. Plasma microRNAs as biomarkers for Lamin A/C-related dilated cardiomyopathy: (Publication); Lamin A/C gene (LMNA)-related familial dilated cardiomyopathy (fDCM) is an aggressive heart disease that often leads to transplantation and sudden death. The aim of our study was to evaluate the circulating ...; Created on 01 October 2018
25. Efficient nonparametric confidence bands for receiver operating-characteristic curves: (Publication); Receiver operating-characteristic curve is a popular graphical method frequently used in order to study the diagnostic capacity of continuous (bio)markers. In spite of the existence of a huge number of ...; Created on 01 October 2018
26. 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
27. A probability inequality for sums of independent Banach space valued random variables: (Publication); Let (B, parallel to center dot parallel to) be a real separable Banach space. Let phi(center dot) and psi(center dot) be two continuous and increasing functions defined on [0, infinity) such that phi(0) ...; Created on 01 October 2018
28. Estimation of monotone bivariate quantile residual life: (Publication); The bivariate quantile residual life function can play an important role in statistical reliability and survival analysis. In many situations assuming a decreasing form for it is recommended. Here, we ...; Created on 28 September 2018
29. 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
30. 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
31. Nonparametric estimation of a distribution function from doubly truncated data under dependence: (Publication); The NPMLE of a distribution function from doubly truncated data was introduced in the seminal paper of Efron and Petrosian. The consistency of the Efron-Petrosian estimator depends however on the assumption ...; Created on 16 March 2018
32. Inverse Probability Weighted Cox Regression for Doubly Truncated Data: (Publication); Doubly truncated data arise when event times are observed only if they fall within subject-specific, possibly random, intervals. While non-parametric methods for survivor function estimation using doubly ...; Created on 20 February 2018
33. Quantile regression for partially linear varying-coefficient model with censoring indicators missing at random: (Publication); In this paper, we focus on the partially linear varying-coefficient quantile regression model when the data are right censored and the censoring indicator is missing at random. Based on the calibration ...; Created on 24 January 2018
34. Determining optimum wavelengths for leaf water content estimation from reflectance: A distance correlation approach: (Publication); This paper proposes a method to estimate leaf water content from reflectance in four commercial vineyard varieties by estimating the local maxima of a distance correlation function. First, it applies four ...; Created on 24 January 2018
35. A weighted bootstrap approximation for comparing the error distributions in nonparametric regression: (Publication); Several procedures have been proposed for testing the equality of error distributions in two or more nonparametric regression models. Here we deal with methods based on comparing estimators of the cumulative ...; Created on 09 October 2018
36. Quality of life and anxiety in women with breast cancer before and after treatment.: (Publication); Objectives: to determine the quality of life and anxiety in patients with breast cancer and the changes they experience after treatments. Method: prospective study. Breast cancer statistics (n=339, confidence=95%, ...; Created on 08 October 2018
37. Hypothesis test on response mean with inequality constraints under data missing when covariables are present: (Publication); This paper addresses the problem of hypothesis test on response mean with various inequality constraints in the presence of covariates when response data are missing at random. The various hypotheses include ...; Created on 22 May 2018
38. Power Indices and Minimal Winning Coalitions for Simple Games in Partition Function Form: (Publication); We propose a generalization of simple games to partition function form games based on a monotonicity property that we define in this context. This property allows us to properly speak about minimal winning ...; Created on 14 May 2018
39. Some structural properties of a lattice of embedded coalitions: (Publication); n this paper we investigate some structural properties of the order on the set of embedded coalitions outlined in the paper de Clippel G. and R. Serrano (2008) Marginal Contributions and Externalities ...; Created on 14 May 2018
40. An extended sequential goodness-of-fit multiple testing method for discrete data: (Publication); The sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testing method has recently been proposed as an alternative to the familywise error rate-And the false discovery rate-controlling procedures in high-dimensional ...; Created on 23 January 2018
41. Copula-graphic estimation with left-truncated and right-censored data: (Publication); In Survival Analysis and related fields of research right-censored and left-truncated data often appear. Usually, it is assumed that the right-censoring variable is independent of the lifetime of ultimate ...; Created on 23 January 2018
42. 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
43. Comparing some production functions for inpatient health services in selected public hospitals in Spain: (Publication); To investigate the adequacy of the widely used Cobb-Douglas and transcendental logarithmic (translog) models of the production functions of hospital inpatient services, the authors fitted these and additive ...; Created on 18 September 2017
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. Pillar[5]arene-based supramolecular plasmonic thin films for label-free, quantitative and multiplex SERS detection: (Publication); Novel plasmonic thin films based on electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of citrate-stabilized Au nanoparticles (NPs) and ammonium pillar[5]arene (AP[5]A) have been developed. The supramolecular-induced ...; Created on 18 September 2017
48. Flat foot in a random population and its impact on quality of life and functionality: (Publication); Introduction: Flat foot is a common deformity in adults. It is characterized by medial rotation and plantar flexion of the talus, eversion of the calcaneus, collapsed medial arch and abduction of the forefoot. Aim: ...; Created on 18 September 2017
49. Tests for conditional ellipticity in multivariate GARCH models: (Publication); Tests are proposed for the assumption that the conditional distribution of a multivariate GARCH process is elliptic. These tests are of Kolmogorov–Smirnov and Cramér–von Mises-type and make use of the ...; Created on 18 January 2017
50. condSURV: An R Package for the Estimation of the Conditional Survival Function for Ordered Multivariate Failure Time Data: (Publication); One major goal in clinical applications of time-to-event data is the estimation of survival with censored data. The usual nonparametric estimator of the survival function is the time-honored Kaplan-Meier ...; Created on 22 May 2018