The current MA risk adjustment model has shortcomings, both in predictive accuracy and payment equity across the Medicare ...

Flat prior (not usually recommended); Super-vague but proper prior: normal(0, 1e6) (not usually recommended); Weakly informative prior, very weak: normal(0, 10); Generic weakly informative prior: ...

The use of mechanical circulatory support devices for high‐risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has increased over the past decade despite limited data of benefit. We sought to examine the ...

Background: Cirrhosis is a prevalent disease and ranks among the leading causes of death worldwide. Sarcopenia is believed to be associated with a poorer prognosis in patients with cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT: Background: Bivariate count data are commonly encountered in medicine, biology, engineering, epidemiology and many other applications. The Poisson distribution has been the model of choice ...

High-throughput sequencing of 16S gene or metagenomes provides an unprecedented opportunity to discover microbes associated with traits such as clinical outcomes or environmental factors. However, the ...

Joint Species Distribution Models (JSDM) have received a lot of attention in the last decade as they provide a general multivariate framework to study the joint abundances of all species from a ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. If the second term is an order of magnitude smaller than the ...

Objective To investigate the prevalence of the number of children ever born (CEB) and its associated determinants among women aged 15–49 years in Bangladesh. Study design and setting We used clustered ...