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1. Nonparametric estimation of the cumulative incidences of competing risks under double truncation: (Publication); Registry data typically report incident cases within a certain calendar time interval. Such interval sampling induces double truncation on the incidence times, which may result in an observational bias. ...; Created on 21 January 2020
2. 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
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. Structural, Dermal and Ungual Characteristics of the Foot in Patients with Type II Diabetes: (Publication); Background and Objectives: Diabetes is a chronic and metabolic disease, considered as an important public health problem. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of podiatric pathology ...; Created on 20 November 2019
5. 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
6. Assessing a single SNP located at TERT/CLPTM1L multi-cancer risk region as a genetic modifier for risk of pancreatic cancer and melanoma in Dutch CDKN2A mutation carriers: (Publication); Carriers of pathogenic variants in CDKN2A have a 70% life-time risk of developing melanoma and 15–20% risk of developing pancreatic cancer (PC). In the Netherlands, a 19-bp deletion in exon 2 of CDKN2A ...; Created on 26 September 2019
7. 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
8. 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
9. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
10. 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
11. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; 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. 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
14. Complex decongestive therapy in the early stages of breast cancer-related lymphoedema: (Publication); Objectives To analyse the outcomes of Complex Decongestive Therapy (CDT) applied for the first time in patients with Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema (BCRL) stages 0-I. Material and methods A descriptive ...; 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. 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
17. Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric specifications of conditionally heteroscedastic models: (Publication); We consider a goodness-of-fit test for certain parametrizations of conditionally heteroscedastic time series with unobserved components. Our test is quite general in that it can be employed to validate ...; Created on 17 September 2019
18. 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
19. A method for determining groups in multiple survival curves: (Publication); Survival analysis includes a wide variety of methods for analyzing time‐to‐event data. One basic but important goal in survival analysis is the comparison of survival curves between groups. Several nonparametric ...; Created on 23 August 2019
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. Hubert's multi‐rater kappa revisited: (Publication); There is a frequent need to measure the degree of agreement among R observers who independently classify n subjects within K nominal or ordinal categories. The most popular methods are usually kappa‐type ...; Created on 06 August 2019
25. Testing equality of a large number of densities under mixing conditions: (Publication); In certain settings, such as microarray data, the sampling information is formed by a large number of possibly dependent small data sets. In special applications, for example in order to perform clustering, ...; Created on 12 December 2018
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Percentile curves and reference values for 2000-m rowing ergometer performance time in international rowers aged 14-70 years: (Publication); The aim of this study was to provide percentile curves and reference values for the performance in 2000-m maximal effort on rowing ergometer. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a non-probabilistic ...; Created on 11 October 2018
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. nsROC: An R package for non-standard ROC curve analysis: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a graphical method which has become standard in the analysis of diagnostic markers, that is, in the study of the classiﬁcation ability of a numerical ...; Created on 10 October 2018
35. 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 02 October 2018
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. Levels of anti-CMV antibodies are modulated by the frequency and intensity of virus reactivations in kidney transplant patients: (Publication); Anti-CMV (cytomegalovirus) antibody titers are related to immune alterations and increased risk of mortality. To test whether they represent a marker of infection history, we analyzed the effect of viral ...; Created on 22 May 2018
42. Smooth time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve estimators: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic curve is a popular graphical method often used to study the diagnostic capacity of continuous (bio)markers. When the considered outcome is a time-dependent variable, ...; Created on 22 May 2018
43. 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
44. Nonparametric Estimation of Transition Probabilities for a General Progressive Multi-State Model Under CrossSectional Sampling: (Publication); Nonparametric estimation of the transition probability matrix of a progressive multi-state model is consideredunder cross-sectional sampling. Two diﬀerent estimators adapted to possibly right-censored ...; Created on 20 February 2018
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. Plasma mitochondrial DNA levels are inversely associated with HIV-RNA levels and directly with CD4 counts: potential role as a biomarker of HIV replication: (Publication); Objectives: To evaluate plasma mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) levels among HIV-infected patients and its potential role as a biomarker of residual viral replication. Methods: HIV-infected patients on follow-up ...; Created on 08 October 2018
49. Hábitos podológicos en personas con alteraciones ungueales: (Publication); Objective: To determine the prevalence of onychocryptosis and onychomycosis confirmed by culture in subjects attending a Podiatric University Hospital and to describe their podiatric habits. Method: ...; Created on 08 October 2018
50. Jackknife empirical likelihood of error variance in partially linear varying-coefficient errors-in-variables models: (Publication); For the partially linear varying-coefficient model when the parametric covariates are measured with additive errors, the estimator of the error variance is defined based on residuals of the model. At the ...; Created on 22 May 2018