This paper considers a panel duration model that has a proportional hazards specification with fixed effects. The paper shows how to estimate the baseline and integrated baseline hazard functions without assuming that they belong to known, finitedimensional families of functions. Existing estimators assume that the baseline hazard function belongs to a known parametric family. Therefore, the es...

The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) protein DIMMED (DIMM) supports the differentiation of secretory properties in numerous peptidergic cells of Drosophila melanogaster. DIMM is coexpressed with diverse amidated neuropeptides and with the amidating enzyme peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase (PHM) in approximately 300 cells of the late embryo. Here we confirm that DIMM has transcripti...

BACKGROUND Intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid (HA) for knee osteoarthritis (OA) effectively reduces pain and delays total knee replacement (TKR) surgery; however, little is known about relative differences in clinical and cost outcomes among different HA products. OBJECTIVE To compare disease-specific costs and risk of TKR among patients receiving different HA treatments in a commer...

In asset management of infrastructures, predicting deterioration of structures is one of an essential technique. Especially this study focuses on educational facilities from among social infrastructures. However, as for such kind of the facilities that consist of a large number of structural components, in order to estimate their deterioration process with high accuracy, the heterogeneity of in...

Different approaches for predicting genetic merit of piglet preweaning survival were compared using proportional hazard, threshold (TM), and sequential threshold (STM) models. Data were from 13,924 crossbred piglets (1,347 litters), born from 2000 to 2006, and originated by mating 189 Large White C21 Gorzagri boars to 328 Large White-derived crossbred sows. A frailty proportional hazard model w...

Lung cancer is the most frequently occuring fatal cancer in the United States. By assuming a form for the hazard function for a group of lung cancer patients for survival study, the covariates in the hazard function are estimated by the maximum likelihood estimation following the proportional hazards regression analysis. Although the proportional hazards model does not give an explicit baseline...

Cox proportional hazards model is a commonly used model in providing hazard ratio to compare survival times of two population groups. The exponentiated linear regression part of the model describes the effects of explanatory variables on hazard ratio. PROC PHREG is a SAS procedure that implements the Cox model and provides the hazard ratio estimate. The estimate is interpreted as the percent ch...

it is essential to use statistical models and theoretical analysis of the data for preparing comprehensive geological and seismic hazard mapping. a cellular automaton consists of an array of cells, each one of which has a finite number of possible states, together with a rule for updating all cells simultaneously based only on the states of neighboring cells. in the present paper, ising cellula...

in many countries, studies to determine the severity of desertification and providing land plans to implement desertification. one of the models is modified medalus or iranian model (imdpa), has been used in present research in order to investigate desertification situation in the tashk region of fars province. in this research, the modified imdpa model used with emphasis on the water, soil and...