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 ...

This important study presents a statistical framework for the analysis of photometry signals and provides an open-source implementation. The evidence supporting the benefits of the presented ...

Cyber losses in terms of number of records breached under cyber incidents commonly feature a significant portion of zeros, specific characteristics of mid-range losses and large losses, which make it ...

Choosing a statistical model and accounting for uncertainty about this choice are important parts of the scientific process and are required for common statistical tasks such as parameter estimation, ...

Magnitude and Temporal Trend of the Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: On the Basis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Barriers to cancer care are observed globally, and specific factors vary on ...

In the causal mediation framework, several parametric-regression-based approaches have been introduced in the last decade for estimating natural direct and indirect effects. For a binary outcome, a ...

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 ...