the data set employed in this study was comprised of a number of 6,800 records of lamb’s longevity and their survival rate, collected from 1989 through 2009, from the lori-bakhtiari experimental flock at the shooli station in shahrekord, iran. the data were analyzed using linear models and proportional hazard models with weibull function. these models included fixed factors and direct additive ...

A comparative workflow, including linear and non-linear QSAR models, was carried out to evaluate the predictive accuracy of models and predict the inhibition activity of a series of aryl-substituted isobenzofuran-1(3H)-ones. The data set consisted of 34 compounds was classified into the training and test sets, randomly. Molecular descriptors were selected using the genetic algorithm (GA) as a f...

todays, dynamic models are supposed as the most important tools in erosion and sediment phenomenadue to their complexities and existence of many affecting factors. towards, the present study wasconducted in the kojour watershed for daily sediment modeling using daily rainfall, discharge andsediment during 2007 to 2010. the modeling process was carried out all data and the monthly andseasonally ...

Bayesian inference is developed for matrix-variate dynamic linear models (MV-DLMs), in order to allow missing observation analysis, of any sub-vector or sub-matrix of the observation time series matrix. We propose modifications of the inverted Wishart and matrix t distributions, replacing the scalar degrees of freedom by a diagonal matrix of degrees of freedom. The MV-DLM is then re-defined and...

It is common in psychiatric epidemiologic studies of childhood psychopathology to have multiple informant reports of mental health outcomes. The key challenge in analyzing multiple informant data concerns how they should best be represented in statistical models. Here we propose multivariate linear regression as the preferred method when the multiple informant outcome data are continuous. This ...

BACKGROUND Recently, there has been considerable effort to promote the use of health information technology (HIT) in order to improve health care quality. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which HIT implementation is associated with hospital patient care quality. We undertook this study to determine the association of various HITs with: hospital quality improvement (QI) pr...