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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Multivariate response data often arise in practice and they are frequently subject to missingness. Under this circumstance, the standard sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) methods cannot be used directly. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
OBJECTIVE: We aimed to compare the diagnostic utility of the STOP-Bang questionnaire for moderate apnoea against the gold standard (type I polysomnography) in a primary care setting.
METHOD: Study of ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aims and objectives: To analyse quality of life and satisfaction after immediate breast reconstruction due to cancer and its determining factors.
Background: Studying breast reconstruction is important ...
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 ...
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) ...
Introduction. One of the population with higher exposure to asbestos is composed by shipyard´s workers. Different risks have been theorized according to the type of naval construction, relating higher ...
This paper presents a general result that allows for establishing a link between the Kolmogorov-Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong law of large numbers and Feller's strong law of large numbers in a Banach space ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this work, some properties of the L2-deviations of the Nadaraya-Watson variogram estimators are analyzed, for both the anisotropic and the isotropic settings. Their convergence in distribution is established, ...
Research question: The most common result in the analysis of efficiency in multisport competitions like the Olympic Games using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a ranking of the participating countries. ...
Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy and wide local excision of the primary melanoma (SLNB) is now a standard staging procedure for patients with melanomas 1 mm or more in thickness, but its therapeutic ...
In this note, general symmetrization procedures for both the weak and strong laws of large numbers concerning the row sums from arrays of rowwise independent Banach space valued random variables are established. ...
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 ...
The problem of estimation of the shape parameter in a generalized half-logistic distribution for progressively type-II censored samples is of interest in reliability and survival analysis. In this paper, ...
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 ...
The evaluation of the spatial similarity of two observed point patterns is an important issue in spatial data quality assessment. In this work we propose a formal procedure that takes advantage of the ...
This article deals with generalized differentiable fuzzy functions. Specifically, we give some characterizations of generalized Hukuhara differentiable fuzzy functions through the differentiability of ...
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 ...
Consider the heteroscedastic partially linear errors-in-variables (EV) model yi = xiβ + g(ti) + εi, ξi = xi + μi (1 ⩽ i ⩽ n), where εi = σiei are random errors with mean zero, σ2i = f(ui), (xi, ti, ui) ...
Based on the idea of the local polynomial smoother, we construct the Nadaraya–Watson type and local linear estimators of conditional density function for a left-truncation model. Asymptotic normality of ...
We evaluated specific habitat features (bottom substrate type, depth, temperature, season and latitude-longitude) at random locations in the Cíes Islands (Galician Atlantic Islands National Park, Northwest ...
Nonparametric regression with a doubly truncated response is introduced. Local constant and local linear kernel-type estimators are proposed. Asymptotic expressions for the bias and the variance of the ...
In this paper we analyze a situation in which several firms deal with inventory problems concerning the same type of product. We consider that each firm uses its limited capacity warehouse for storing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several observational studies have assessed the correlation between Merkel cell carcinoma and Merkel cell polyomavirus with variable results. The objective of this systematic review was to determine whether ...
Background Ventricular fibrillation (VF) has been proposed to be maintained by localized high-frequency sources. We tested whether spectral-phase analysis of the precordial ECG enabled identification of ...
Background Differential diagnosis between tachycardia mediated by septal accessory pathways (AP) and atypical atrioventricular nodal reentry can be challenging. We hypothesized that an immediate versus ...
The objective of this paper is to analyse whether auditors comply with the standards
currently in force when writing audit reports in Spain. We try to obtain evidence for
the relationship of the errors ...
A class of goodness-of-fit tests of the Cramer-von Mises type is considered. More specifically, the test statistic of each test is an L-2-norm of the difference between the empirical characteristic function ...
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 ...
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 ...
A class of goodness-of-fit tests whose test statistic is an L-2 norm of the difference of the empirical characteristic function of the sample and a parametric estimate of the characteristic function in ...
This paper extends the notion of individual minimal rights for a transferable utility game (TU-game) to coalitional minimal rights using minimal balanced families of a specific type, thus defining a corresponding ...
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 ...