The usage of psychological networks that conceptualize behavior as a complex interplay of
psychological and other components has gained increasing popularity in various research …

This chapter reviews multivariate modeling using copulas with illustrative applications in
engineering such as multivariate process control and degradation analysis. A copula …

Computer simulation experiments are essential to modern scientific discovery, whether that
be in physics, chemistry, biology, epidemiology, ecology, engineering, etc. Surrogates are …

This paper discusses two important limitations of the common practice of testing for
preexisting differences in trends (“pre-trends”) when using difference-in-differences and …

Objective To develop fetal and neonatal population weight charts. The rationale was that,
while reference ranges of estimated fetal weight (EFW) are representative of the whole …

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APPLICATION phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) …

BACKGROUND Ceramides are sphingolipids that play causative roles in diabetes and heart
disease, with their serum levels measured clinically as biomarkers of cardiovascular disease …

In biospectroscopy, suitably annotated and statistically independent samples (eg patients,
batches, etc.) for classifier training and testing are scarce and costly. Learning curves show …

It is common practice in statistical data analysis to perform data-driven variable selection
and derive statistical inference from the resulting model. Such inference enjoys none of the …

The purpose of this book is to provide a self-contained entry into Monte Carlo computational
techniques. First and foremost, it must not be confused with a programming addendum to …