each semester, students are asked to evaluate the academic staff through an online questionnaire. generalized estimating equations model (gee), taking into account the correlation between scores, is the established tool to analyze longitudinal data. the aim of this manuscript is to identify characteristics that influence staff score and to address the importance of selection of appropriate corr...

Objective Women undergoing IVF cycles should go successfully through multiple points during the procedure (i.e., implantation, clinical pregnancy, no spontaneous abortion and delivery) to achieve live births. On the other there is a need to consider previous reproductive outcomes and as well as the current cycle. In this study, data on multiple cycles and multiple points during the IVF cycle ar...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: e pilepsy is a common, chronic neurological disorder that affects more than 40 million people worldwide. epilepsy is characterized by interictal and ictal functional disturbances. the presence of interictal epileptiform discharges (ieds) can help to confirm a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy, and their location a...

menorrhagia is one of the most common gynecological problem and leading causes of poor quality of life and iron deficiency anemia in women of reproductive age. research in gynecological field relies heavily on repeated measure designs. repeated measure studies are helpful in understanding how factors of interest change over time. our goal is to apply statistical methods which are appropriate fo...

It is a privilege to be able to peruse the fine article by Ziegler and Vens [1], as well as the contributions made by nine discussants [2]. Over the last 25 years, generalized estimating equations (GEE) have seen an ever further spreading use. Nonetheless, it is a technique confronted with confusion and, at times, misunderstanding. The user must carefully read the technique’s manual. Let us hig...

When inferences focus on population averages, one can directly model all of the marginal expectations E(Yij) = μij in terms of covariates of interest. This is typically done via h(μij) = x ′ ijβ, with h(·) some known link function, such as the logit link for binary responses. The marginal variance depends on the marginal mean according to Var(Yij) = v(μij)φ, where v(·) is a known variance funct...

We introduce a generalized bootstrap technique for estimators obtained by solving estimating equations. Some special cases of this generalized bootstrap are the classical bootstrap of Efron, the deleted jackknife and variations of the Bayesian bootstrap. The use of the proposed technique is discussed in some examples. Distributional consistency of the method is established and an asymptotic rep...

accidents and their resulting losses are one of the critical public health issues. identification the near misses offer the opportunity to improve safety by developing effective prevention approach. the main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of two types of intervention in increasing the participation of first line managers in reporting near misses. in order to increase the...