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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
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. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. A Diagnostic Test Approach for Multitesting Problems: (Publication); In the last decades, multiple-testing problems have received much attention. Many different methods have been proposed in order to deal with this relevant issue. Most of them are focused on controlling ...; Created on 10 October 2018
14. 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
15. 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); Background: Colorectal cancer is the fourth cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, though detection at early stages associates with good prognosis. Thus, there is a clear demand for novel non-invasive ...; Created on 22 May 2018
16. 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
17. 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
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. 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
20. 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
21. Wavelet estimation of density for censored data with censoring indicator missing at random: (Publication); In this paper, we define the nonlinear wavelet estimator of density for the right censoring model with the censoring indicator missing at random (MAR), and develop its asymptotic expression for mean integrated ...; Created on 22 May 2018
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. 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
27. Semiparametric estimation of risk-return relationships: (Publication); This article proposes semiparametric generalized least-squares estimation of parametric restrictions between the conditional mean and the conditional variance of excess returns given a set of parametric ...; Created on 01 September 2017
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. Comment on ‘An improved score interval with a modified midpoint for a binomial proportion: (Publication); Yu et al. [An improved score interval with a modified midpoint for a binomial proportion. J Stat Comput Simul. 2014;84:1022–1038] propose a novel confidence interval (CI) for a binomial proportion by modifying ...; Created on 04 November 2016
34. 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
35. 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
36. TPmsm: Estimation of the transition probabilities in 3-state models: (Publication); One major goal in clinical applications of multi-state models is the estimation of transition probabilities. The usual nonparametric estimator of the transition matrix for non-homogeneous Markov processes ...; Created on 01 September 2017
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. 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
45. Sgof: An R Package for Multiple Testing Problems: (Publication); In this paper we present a new R package called sgof for multiple hypothesis testing. The principal aim of this package is to implement SGoF-type multiple testing methods, known to be more powerful than ...; Created on 04 September 2017
46. Performance of Beta-Binomial SGoF Multitesting Method for Dependent Gene Expression Levels A Simulation Study: (Publication); In a recent paper (de Uña-Álvarez, 2012, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology Vol. 11, Iss. 3, Article 14) a correction of SGoF multitesting method for possibly dependent tests was ...; Created on 14 January 2019
47. 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
48. Quality control in aerobiology: comparison different slide reading methods: (Publication); The use of standard methodology allows us to compare and to evaluate the data generated from samplers under general use. In aerobiological pollen monitoring, the most frequently slide sampling methods ...; Created on 04 September 2017
49. 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
50. 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