the effects of different climatic, soil, geometric, and management factors on soil organic carbon (soc) degradation and sequestration potential was evaluated in the semi-arid zone of mereg watershed, west of iran. two nonparametric methods, viz. classification and regression tree (cart) and feed forward back propagation artificial neural network (ann) were compared with parametric multivariate ...

Outlier detection statistics based on two models, the case-deletion model and the mean-shift model, are developed in the context of a multivariate linear regression model. These are generalizations of the univariate Cook’s distance and other diagnostic statistics. Approximate distributions of the proposed statistics are also obtained to get suitable cutoff points for significance tests. In addi...

background: today, the quality of life (qol) studies have an important role in public health care, especially among the old adults suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes. diabetes and its complications can widely affect various aspects of qol. therefore, the present study aimed to assess diabetic patients’ qol and identify the factors that affect it.   methods: a cross-sectional study...

this paper deals with ridge estimation of fuzzy nonparametric regression models using triangular fuzzy numbers. this estimation method is obtained by implementing ridge regression learning algorithm in the la- grangian dual space. the distance measure for fuzzy numbers that suggested by diamond is used and the local linear smoothing technique with the cross- validation procedure for selecting t...

a pedigree file consisting of 5860 individuals, 167 sires and 1582 dams collected at makooei sheep breeding station (msbs) during a period of 24 years (1990 to 2013) was used to calculate the inbreeding coefficients to reveal any probable effects of inbreeding (f) on the studied traits. the studied traits were classified to the five main groups including body weight, kleiber ratio, body measure...