6From the Department ofMedicine, University ofWestern Ontario, London, Ontario, and the Department ofPreventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University ofToronto, Toronto, Canada. tProfessor of Medicine. IProfessor and Chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics. §Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. IIProject Man...

Department of Chemistry, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran 2 Department of Chemistry, Teacher Training University, 15614, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Chemistry, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran 4 Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 5 Department of Chemistry, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran 6 Department of Chemistry, Razi Universi...

1 Full Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran; and is the corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Scienc...

Gokmen Zararsiz, Dincer Goksuluk, Selcuk Korkmaz, Vahap Eldem, Izzet Parug Duru, Turgay Unver, Ahmet Ozturk Department of Biostatistics, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey Division of Bioinformatics, Genome and Stem Cell Center (GENKOK), Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey Department of Biostatistics, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey Department of Biology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Tu...

assessing the preparedness rate againest earthquake risk in hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences 2011     hekmatkhah a [1] , rahimi h [2] , kamali aghdam m [3] , taghavi shahri sm [4] , sadeghifar j [5] , hamouzadeh p [6] *     received: 22 nov, 2011 accepted: 15 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the necessity for providing appropriate services in hospitals du...

We consider linear transformation models applied to right censored survival data with a change-point in the regression coefficient based on a covariate threshold. We establish consistency and weak convergence of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estima-tors. The change-point parameter is shown to be n-consistent, while the remaining parameters are shown to have the expected root-n consistenc...

Two challenging problems in the clinical study of cancer are the characterization of cancer subtypes and the classification of individual patients according to those subtypes. Statistical approaches addressing these problems are hampered by population heterogeneity and challenges inherent in data integration across high-dimensional, diverse covariates. We have developed a survival-supervised la...

the effect of tele-education by telephone and short message service on glycaemic control in patient with type 2 diabetes     hemmati maslakpak m [1] , parizad n [2] , khalkhali hr [3]     received: 4 may , 2012 accepted: 19 jun , 2012     abstract   background & aims : patient training has an important role in diabetes control. tele-education is effective, due to the elimination of­­ both space...