background: owing to the growing importance of medicines in treatment of diseases, as well as their role as alternatives for expensive and often unsafe procedures; economic examination of factors associated with their demand is necessary. hence, this study aimed at exploring factors affecting the demand of specialty medicines.   methods: in this descriptive-analytic study, data was collected fr...

background and aim: metal ceramic restorations are widely used in crowns. the marginal fitness of these artificial crowns is prone to alteration during the firing cycle of porcelain. gold electroformed metal-ceramic restorations have been introduced as alternatives to conventional metal-ceramic restorations. however little is known about the relationship between procelain firing procedures and ...

background: this in vitro study investigated the marginal fit of two porcelain laminate veneers to help the selection of more accurate veneers in discolored teeth. materials and methods: thirty impressions of metal master die created from the prepared labial surface of an acrylic maxillary central incisor were made and poured with type iv stone. the dies were distributed into test groups (n = 1...

This paper is concerned with combined inference for point processes on the real line observed in a broken interval. For such processes, the classic history-based approach cannot be used. Instead, we adapt tools from sequential spatial point processes. For a range of models, the marginal and conditional distributions are derived. We discuss likelihood based inference as well as parameter estimat...

Zeger and Liang (1992) allege that regression parameter estimates from transition models tend to be smaller in absolute value than regression parameter estimates from marginal models. This statement is true in typical longitudinal data situations for the relation between the true parameters of the marginal and transition model. However, under the assumption of a transition model the Generalized...