The analysis of ordered categorical data: An overview and a survey of recent developments

I Liu, A Agresti - Test, 2005‏ - Springer
This article review methodologies used for analyzing ordered categorical (ordinal) response
variables. We begin by surveying models for data with a single ordinal response variable …

[ספר][B] Bayesian biostatistics

E Lesaffre, AB Lawson - 2012‏ - books.google.com
The growth of biostatistics has been phenomenal in recent years and has been marked by
considerable technical innovation in both methodology and computational practicality. One …

A general method for dealing with misclassification in regression: the misclassification SIMEX

H Küchenhoff, SM Mwalili, E Lesaffre - Biometrics, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
We have developed a new general approach for handling misclassification in discrete
covariates or responses in regression models. The simulation and extrapolation (SIMEX) …

Cuts in Bayesian graphical models

M Plummer - Statistics and Computing, 2015‏ - Springer
The cut function defined by the OpenBUGS software is described as a “valve” that prevents
feedback in Bayesian graphical models. It is shown that the MCMC algorithm applied by …

The zero-inflated negative binomial regression model with correction for misclassification: an example in caries research

SM Mwalili, E Lesaffre… - Statistical methods in …, 2008‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Zero-inflated models for count data are becoming quite popular nowadays and are found in
many application areas, such as medicine, economics, biology, sociology and so on …

Prior specification in Bayesian statistics: three cautionary tales

S Van Dongen - Journal of theoretical biology, 2006‏ - Elsevier
One of the most important differences between Bayesian and traditional techniques is that
the former combines information available beforehand—captured in the prior distribution …

National pathfinder survey on children's oral health in Italy: pattern and severity of caries disease in 4-year-olds

G Campus, G Solinas, L Strohmenger, MG Cagetti… - Caries …, 2009‏ - karger.com
This paper describes the dental health status of Italian 4-year-olds in 2004/2005 and
analyzes the association between caries in preschool children and some background …

Spatial measurement errors in the field of spatial epidemiology

Z Zhang, J Manjourides, T Cohen, Y Hu… - International Journal of …, 2016‏ - Springer
Background Spatial epidemiology has been aided by advances in geographic information
systems, remote sensing, global positioning systems and the development of new statistical …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical bayesian semi-parametric models for measurement error correction in determining optimal fertilizer application levels

AK Langat, SM Mwalili, LN Kazembe - Scientific African, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Measurement errors present a substantial challenge in accurately determining optimal
fertilizer application levels, directly impacting agricultural efficiency and cost-effectiveness …

Survival trees for interval‐censored survival data

W Fu, JS Simonoff - Statistics in medicine, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interval‐censored data, in which the event time is only known to lie in some time interval,
arise commonly in practice, for example, in a medical study in which patients visit clinics or …