Methods and Results-—Within the prospective Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), we identified children (age <18 years) with an OHCA from October 2005 to December 2013. Survival to hospital discharge by age (categorized as infants [0 to 1 year], younger children [2 to 7 years], older children [8 to 12 years], and teenagers [13 to 17 years]), sex, and race was assessed using modi...

We introduce a new truncation approach to extend earlier methods for proving consistency in nonparametric Bayesian regression problems to non-compact state spaces. We illustrate the approach by proving posterior consistency for a nonparametric Poisson regression model. The key step is separating points in the parameter space by constructing hypothesis tests with suitably small error rates; we d...

The Poisson distribution is often used as a standard probability model for data involving counts. Quite often, however, such datasets are not well fit by a Poisson model because they contain more zero counts than are compatible with the Poisson model. For these situations, a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution is often proposed. This article addresses testing a Poisson versus a ZIP model, ...

A growing body of research exploits social media behaviors to gauge psychological characteristics, though trait empathy has received little attention. Because of its intimate link to the ability to relate to others, our research aims to predict participants’ levels of empathy, given their textual and friending behaviors on Facebook. Using Poisson regression, we compared the variance explained i...

The smooth testing approach described in [2] has been used to develop a test of the distributional assumption for generalized linear models. Application of the test to help assess Poisson and logistic regression models is discussed. Power is compared to other common tests.

1. Introduction. Illustrated manuscripts may be analysed in terms of both their texts and their illustrations. While statistical techniques have long been applied to the textual analysis of manuscripts, e.g., Lebart and Salem (1994), no corresponding pictorial analysis can be found in the art history literature. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the field can benefit from statistical...

We consider the problem of how to construct robust designs for Poisson regression models. An analytical expression is derived for robust designs for first-order Poisson regression models where uncertainty exists in the prior parameter estimates. Given certain constraints in the methodology, it may be necessary to extend the robust designs for implementation in practical experiments. With these ...

In the remainder, we call such a variety a convex symplectic variety. A convex symplectic variety has been studied in [K-V], [Ka 1] and [G-K]. One of main difficulties we meet is the fact that tangent objects TX and T 1 Y are not finite dimensional, since Y may possibly have non-isolated singularities; hence the usual deformation theory does not work well. Instead, in [K-V], [G-K], they introdu...

In the remainder, we call such a variety a convex symplectic variety. A convex symplectic variety has been studied in [K-V], [Ka 1] and [G-K]. One of main difficulties we meet is the fact that tangent objects TX and T 1 Y are not finite dimensional, since Y may possibly have non-isolated singularities; hence the usual deformation theory does not work well. Instead, in [K-V], [G-K], they introdu...