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1. The role of the p-value in the multitesting problem: (Publication); Modern science frequently involves the analysis of large amount of quantitative information and the simultaneous testing of thousands or even hundreds of thousands null hypotheses. In this context, sometimes, ...; Created on 22 November 2019
2. Emphysema and smoking in patients with occupational exposure to asbestos: (Publication); Objective: To study the association between the smoking degree and the appearance of emphysema in patients with a history of asbestos exposure in our region. Material and methods: Patients included ...; Created on 26 September 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. 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
5. Relationship between damage and mortality in juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: Cluster analyses in a large cohort from the Spanish Society of Rheumatology Lupus Registry (RELESSER): (Publication); Objectives: To identify patterns (clusters)of damage manifestation within a large cohort of juvenile SLE (jSLE)patients and evaluate their possible association with mortality. Methods: This is a multicentre, ...; Created on 24 September 2019
6. 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
7. Incidence rate and clinicopathological features of 62 atypical fibroxanthomas in a North-Western Spanish population: (Publication); Background/Objectives: Atypical fibroxanthoma (AFX) is a mesenchymal neoplasm of unknown incidence. It has been determined that AFX is a tumour with low aggressiveness as long as it is properly diagnosed. ...; Created on 24 September 2019
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
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. A Diagnostic Test Approach for Multitesting Problems: (Publication); ... some weak version of the Type I error such as the False Discovery Rate. Type II error is frequently forgotten. In this work, the multitesting problem is treated from a diagnostic test approach in which ...; Created on 10 October 2018
15. THU0359 Relationship between damage clustering and mortality in juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus: cluster analyses in a large cohort from the spanish society of rheumatology lupus registry: (Publication); Background/Purpose: To identify patterns (clusters) of damage manifestation within a large cohort of juvenile SLE (jSLE) patients and evaluate their possible association with mortality. Methods: This ...; Created on 08 October 2018
16. A new approach to epigenome-wide discovery of non-invasive methylation biomarkers for colorectal cancer screening in circulating cell-free DNA using pooled samples o: (Publication); ... of sites detected. The differential methylation analysis revealed 1384 CpG sites (5% false discovery rate) with at least 10% difference in the methylation level between no colorectal findings controls ...; Created on 22 May 2018
17. Helmet Versus Nasal-Prong CPAP in Infants With Acute Bronchiolitis: (Publication); BACKGROUND: Nasal prongs are frequently used to deliver noninvasive CPAP in bronchiolitis, especially in the youngest children. A helmet interface is an alternative that might be comparable to nasal prongs. ...; Created on 22 May 2018
18. 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
19. 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
20. Relationship between serum levels of VIP, but not of CGRP, and cranial autonomic parasympathetic symptoms: A study in chronic migraine patients: (Publication); Background: Cranial autonomic parasympathetic symptoms (CAPS) appear in at least half of migraine patients theoretically as a result of the release of peptides by the trigemino-vascular system (TVS). Cranial ...; Created on 18 September 2017
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Galicia, Spain: trends over a 20-year period: (Publication); Study design: Observational study with prospective and retrospective monitoring. Objective: To describe the epidemiological and demographic characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI), and ...; Created on 18 September 2017
25. Keys to Success in High Level Water Polo Teams: (Publication); The aim of this study was to identify specific offensive performance indicators that distinguish the top clubs from the others in the Male Honour Division of the Spanish Water Polo League. A total of 88 ...; Created on 18 September 2017
26. Spatio-temporal adaptive penalized splines with application to Neuroscience: (Publication); Data analysed here derive from experiments conducted to study neurons’ activity in the visual cortex of behaving monkeys. We consider a spatio-temporal adaptive penalized spline (P-spline) approach for ...; Created on 03 December 2016
27. Randomised clinical trial to compare two tracheotomy care methods in an Intensive Care Unit: (Publication); Introduction: Tracheotomy is a common technique in Intensive Care Units (ICU). It is known that nursing care during and after that procedure is directly related to its success, by reducing the possible ...; Created on 04 November 2016
28. Berry–Esseen type bound of conditional mode estimation under truncation and strong mixing assumptions: (Publication); In order to investigate the convergence rate of the asymptotic normality for the estimator of the conditional mode function for the left-truncation model, we derive a Berry–Esseen type bound of the estimator ...; Created on 04 November 2016
29. Nonparametric estimation of time-dependent ROC curves conditional on a continuous covariate: (Publication); The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve is the most widely used measure for evaluating the performance of a diagnostic biomarker when predicting a binary disease outcome. The ROC curve displays ...; Created on 04 November 2016
30. Relationship between damage clustering and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus in early and late stages of the disease: cluster analyses in a large cohort from the Spanish Society of Rheumatology ...: (Publication); Objectives: To identify patterns (clusters) of damage manifestations within a large cohort of SLE patients and evaluate the potential association of these clusters with a higher risk of mortality. Methods: ...; Created on 24 October 2016
31. Power, FDR and conservativeness of BB-SGoF method: (Publication); Beta-binomial sequential goodness-of-fit (or BB-SGoF) method for multiple testing has been recently proposed as a suitable modification of the sequential goodness-of-fit (SGoF) multiple testingmethod ...; Created on 01 September 2017
32. 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 highdimensional ...; Created on 01 September 2017
33. Severe acute kidney injury in critically ill children: Epidemiology and prognostic factors: (Publication); Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a severe complication in critically ill children. The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of AKI, as well as to analyse the prognostic factors ...; Created on 01 September 2017
34. Predicting malignant and tuberculous pleural effusions through demographics and pleural fluid analysis of patients effusions: (Publication); IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of malignant and tuberculous pleural effusion is frequently difficult. ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to determine the discrimination value of demographic ...; Created on 01 September 2017
35. Lung-function trajectories leading to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: (Publication); BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is thought to result from an accelerated decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) over time. Yet it is possible that a normal decline ...; Created on 01 September 2017
36. Seasonality, ambient temperatures and hospitalizations for acute exacerbation of COPD: a metropolitan area population-based study: (Publication); Background: Excluding the tropics, exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more frequent in winter. However, studies that directly relate hospitalizations for exacerbation of ...; Created on 01 September 2017
37. 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
38. Sgof: An R Package for Multiple Testing Problems: (Publication); ... the classical false discovery rate (FDR) and family-wise error rate (FWER) based methods in certain situations, particularly when the number of tests is large. This package includes Binomial and Conservative ...; Created on 04 September 2017
39. Performance of Beta-Binomial SGoF Multitesting Method for Dependent Gene Expression Levels A Simulation Study: (Publication); ... proportion of true effects, and effect levels are considered. The allocation of the true effects is taken to be random. False discovery rate, power, and conservativeness of the method with respect to the ...; Created on 14 January 2019
40. Decreasing Percentile Residual Life: Properties and Estimation: (Publication); In this work we describe the class of distribution functions with decreasing α-percentile residual life [DPRL(α)], 0 < α < 1. The close relationship between the aging notion DPRL(α) and increasing failure ...; Created on 10 January 2019
41. Creatinine-or cystatin C-based equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate in acute myocardial infarction: a disparity in estimating renal function and in mortality risk prediction: (Publication); Created on 04 September 2017
42. Asymptotic properties of conditional distribution estimator with truncated, censored and dependent data: (Publication); In this paper we study the strong and weak convergence with rates for the estimators of the conditional distribution function as well as conditional cumulative hazard rate function for a left truncated ...; Created on 08 September 2017
43. On the Statistical Properties of SGoF Multitesting Method: (Publication); In this paper we establish the statistical properties of SGoF multitesting method under a mixture model. It is assumed that the available set of p-values is statistically independent. Special attention ...; Created on 10 January 2019
44. A Simulation Study on the Impact of Strong Dependence in High-Dimensional Multiple-Testing I: The Case without Effects: (Publication); When working with high-dimensional biological data the so-called multiple hypothesis testing problem emerges. That is, when many separate tests are performed, several will be significant by chance provoking ...; Created on 10 January 2019
45. A new flexible direct ROC regression model: Application to the detection of cardiovascular risk factors by anthropometric measures: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is the most widely used measure for evaluating the accuracy of diagnostic tests in terms of differentiating between two conditions. It is known that, in ...; Created on 08 September 2017
46. Asymptotic properties of conditional quantile estimator for censored dependent observations: (Publication); In this paper, we establish strong uniform convergence and asymptotic normality of the conditional quantile estimator for the censorship model when the data exhibit some kind of dependence. It is assumed ...; Created on 08 September 2017
47. Convergence rate of wavelet estimator in semiparametric models with dependent MA($\infty$) error process: (Publication); Created on 08 September 2017