As in many areas of biostatistics, oncological problems often have multivariate predictors. While assuming a linear additive model is convenient and straightforward, it is often not satisfactory when the relation between the outcome measure and the predictors is either nonlinear or nonadditive. In addition, when the number of predictors becomes (much) larger than the number of independent obser...

This paper seeks to predict efficiency ratings for Magic: The Gathering cards in the Draft format. This paper first uses reliable data gathered from the Magic community as the true efficiency ratings. Then, this paper discusses which of the available features are used and the reasoning behind using or not using a feature. This paper then examines a variety of regression algorithms to determine ...

The application of “Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines”(MARS) to the problem of modeling duration of a set of segments used in a text-to-speech system for German is presented. MARS is a technique to estimate general functions of high-dimensional arguments given sparse data. It automatically selects the parameters and the structure of the model based on data available. The result is a mode...

Diversity indices, particularly the Shannon-Wiener index, have extensively been used in analyzing patterns of diversity at different geographic and ecological scales. These indices have serious conceptual and statistical problems which make comparisons of species richness or species abundances across communities nearly impossible. There is often no a single statistical method that retains all i...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe the grief and personal growth experience of spouses and adult children of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and the factors contributing to these experiences. DESIGN AND METHODS We used a modification of the Marwit-Meuser-Sanders Caregiver Grief model to examine the factors that contribute to grief and personal growth....

background the incidence and mortality rates of breast cancer are high among filipino women. the lack of knowledge on preventive behavior and early detection related to breast cancer is considered a reason. conclusions women who were aware of risk factors for breast cancer possessed a higher education level and had knowledge of the association of risk factors with preventive behaviors and early...

A Bayesian approach to non-intrusive quality assessment of narrow-band speech is presented. The speech features used to assess quality are the sample mean and variance of bandpowers evaluated from the temporal envelope in the channels of an auditory filter-bank. Bayesian multivariate adaptive regression splines (BMARS) is used to map features into quality ratings. The proposed combination of fe...