Clinicians and health service researchers are frequently interested in predicting patient-specific probabilities of adverse events (e.g. death, disease recurrence, post-operative complications, hospit...
Searching for background factors associated with falls in people with dementia is difficult because the population is heterogeneous. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacies of three statis...
The use of some unconventional non-linear modeling techniques, i.e. classification and regression trees and multivariate adaptive regression splines-based methods, was explored to model the blood-brai...
Some Merkel cell carcinomas (MCC) have been reported to regress spontaneously. To clarify the mechanisms of spontaneous regression (SR) of MCC, we analyzed the TUNEL index, the labeling index of proli...
OBJECTIVE: Ordinal scales often generate scores with skewed data distributions. The optimal method of analyzing such data is not entirely clear. The objective was to compare four statistical multivari...
This paper concerns the minimum sum of absolute errors regression. It is a more robust alternative to the popular least squares regression whenever there are outliers in the values of the response var...
The advantage of using linear regression in the leaves of a regression tree is analysed in the paper. It is carried out how this modification affects the construction, pruning and interpretation of a ...