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1. Assessment of assumptions of statistical analysis methods in randomised clinical trials: the what and how: (Publication); When analysing and presenting results ofrandomised clinical trials, trialists rarely report if or how underlying statisticalassumptions were validated. To avoid data-driven biased trial results, it should ...; Created on 29 January 2020
2. 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
3. Multiscale supervised classification of point clouds with urban and forest applications: (Publication); We analyze the utility of multiscale supervised classification algorithms for object detection and extraction from laser scanning or photogrammetric point clouds. Only the geometric information (the point ...; Created on 22 November 2019
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. An alternative approach to establishing unbiased colorectal cancer risk estimation in Lynch syndrome: (Publication); Purpose: Biallelic pathogenic variants in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes cause a recessive childhood cancer predisposition syndrome known as constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMRD). Family members ...; Created on 26 September 2019
10. On the estimation of variance parameters in non-standard generalised linear mixed models: application to penalised smoothing: (Publication); We present a novel method for the estimation of variance parameters in generalised linear mixed models. The method has its roots in Harville (J Am Stat Assoc 72(358):320–338, 1977)’s work, but it is able ...; Created on 25 September 2019
11. 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
12. 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
13. Gestational Weight Gain and Offspring Bone Mass: Different Associations in Healthy Weight Versus Overweight Women: (Publication); Weight management strategies during pregnancy reduce child cardiometabolic risk. However, because maternal weight has an overall positive correlation with offspring bone mass, pregnancy weight management ...; Created on 25 September 2019
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. Prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in a random population sample in people aged 40 and over: (Publication); Introduction: Osteoarthritis is the osteoarticular disease with the highest prevalence worldwide. In industrialized countries, 80% of the population > 65 years suffers from it. Objectives: To determine ...; Created on 24 September 2019
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. A comparative analysis of long-term mortality after carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting: (Publication); Background The value of carotid intervention is predicated on long-term survival for patients to derive a stroke prevention benefit. Randomized trials report no significant difference in survival after ...; Created on 22 August 2019
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. Liberal red blood cell transfusions impair quality of life after cardiac surgery: (Publication); BACKGROUND: The optimal blood management after cardiac surgery remains controversial. Moreover, blood transfusions may have an impact on long-term outcomes. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to characterize ...; Created on 01 October 2018
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. 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