For multilevel analyses (e.g., linear mixed models), researchers are often interested in pooling, interpreting, and testing both fixed effects and random effects. PROC MIANALYZE has two shortcomings in this regard. First, it cannot easily pool variance estimates. Second, the significance tests of these estimates are Wald-type tests that are inappropriate for testing variance estimates. Likeliho...

We have established a method for systematic integration of multiple microarray datasets. The method was applied to two different sets of cancer profiling studies. The change of gene expression in cancer was expressed as 'effect size', a standardized index measuring the magnitude of a treatment or covariate effect. The effect sizes were combined to obtain the estimate of the overall mean. The st...

This paper investigates the performance of three types of random coefficients logistic regression models; that is, models using parametric, semi-parametric, and nonparametric specifications of the distribution of the random effects. Whereas earlier studies focussed on models with a single random effect, here we look at models with multidimensional random effects (intercepts and slopes). Moreove...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.022 0003-3472/© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsev license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Many animals actively defend their offspring using a range of behaviours from calling and mobbing in birds, to physical grappling in crustaceans, and the expression of these behaviours positively scale with offspring value. While this role of beh...

The objective of this study was to estimate heritability, heterosis, and genetic parameters involved in the control of forage yield and quality in kenaf populations, using analysis of generation means. Two crosses were used; Cuba 2032×Accession 75-71 and IX51×Everglade 41. Experimental material comprised of P1 and P2, their F1 and F2 and BC1P1 and BC1P2 generations. The effects of generations w...

Recently presented evidence for nation states suggests that the long-standing negative relationship between socioeconomic development and fertility tends to turn positive at high levels of development. This article introduces the sub-national regional dimension to this debate. It focuses on Europe, which comprises a number of highly developed countries with comparatively high fertility rates. I...