This paper considers logistic regression analysis with linked data. It is shown that, in logistic regression analysis with linked data, a finite mixture of Bernoulli distributions can be used for modeling the response variables. We proposed an iterative maximum likelihood estimator for the regression coefficients that takes the matching probabilities into account. Next, the Bayesian counterpart...

background often, there is no access to sufficient sample size to estimate the prevalence using the method of direct estimator in all areas. the aim of this study was to compare small area’s bayesian method and direct method in estimating the prevalence of steatosis in obese and overweight children. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, was conducted on 150 overweight and obese ...

background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...

We harness the power of Bayesian emulation techniques, designed to aid analysis complex computer models, examine structure analyses themselves. These techniques facilitate robust and/or sensitivity problems, and hence allow global exploration impacts choices made in both likelihood prior specification. show how previously intractable problems robustness studies can be overcome using these metho...

the planning of water resources is based on the volume of water extracted from the aquifer and accurate estimate of this volume considerably helps to development. in this study, the bayesian networks model using continues and clustering structures was used to simulate the groundwater level of birjand aquifer. bayesian networks was calibrated with five input variables of aquifer recharge, water ...

The interactions among peers in Peer-to-Peer systems as a distributed collaborative system are based on asynchronous and unreliable communications. Trust is an essential and facilitating component in these interactions specially in such uncertain environments. Various attacks are possible due to large-scale nature and openness of these systems that affects the trust. Peers has not enough inform...

This paper address the problem of Bayesian estimation of the parameters, reliability and hazard function in the context of record statistics values from the two-parameter Lomax distribution. The ML and the Bayes estimates based on records are derived for the two unknown parameters and the survival time parameters, reliability and hazard functions. The Bayes estimates are obtained based on conju...

background & aim: in the survival data with long-term survivors the event has not occurred for all the patients despite long-term follow-up, so the survival time for a certain percent is censored at the  end  of the  study.  mixture  cure  model  was  introduced  by boag,  1949  for  reaching  a  more efficient analysis of this set of data. because of some disadvantages of this model non-mixtur...