First-time House Buying and Catch-up: A Cohort Study

effects of first language on second language writing-a preliminary contrastive rhetoric study of farsi and english

to explore the idea the investingation proposed, aimed at finding whether the performances of the population of iranians students studying english in an efl context are consistent in l1 and l2 writing taks and whether there is a cross-linguistic transfer in this respect. in this regard the subjects were instructed to write four compositions-two in english and two in farsi-which consisted of an ...

Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of postnatal catch-up growth from birth to two years and its relation to size and obesity at five years. DESIGN Regional prospective cohort study. SETTING Avon longitudinal study of pregnancy and childhood, United Kingdom. SUBJECTS 848 full term singletons from a 10% random sample of the Avon longitudinal study of pregnancy and childhood. MAIN OUTCOME ME...

A Strategic Household Purchase: Consumer House Buying Behavior

The aim of this study is to examine consumer house-buying behavior from the consumers’ perspective. In view of the existing literature exploring consumer decision making, the purpose of this research was threefold: (a) to propose a conceptual model of consumer decision making within the frame of consumer behavior; (b) to gain knowledge of factors impacting this process from the empirical standp...

Statistics catch-up lecture

Example 1. In a genetic study, n = 2217 patients are recruited, among which 1127 have bladder cancer. After whole genome sequencing, p = 475290 single nucleatide polymorphisms (or SNPs, a possible variation of the DNA sequence at one location) are measured on each patient. We construct a matrix X = (Xij)1≤i≤n,1≤j≤p where Xij = 1 if the ith patient has a mutation at jth location and 0 otherwise....

Catch-up Growth