BACKGROUND The practice of dichotomizing a continuous outcome variable does not make use of within-category information. That means the loss of information. This study compared two approaches in the modelling of the association between sociodemographic and smoking with obesity in adult women in Iran. METHODS We conducted a comparative study between two methods via an illustrative example, usi...

The complementary log-log is an alternative to logistic model. In many areas of research, the outcome data are continuous. We aim to provide a procedure that allows the researcher to estimate the coefficients of the complementary log-log model without dichotomizing and without loss of information. We show that the sample size required for a specific power of the proposed approach is substantial...

Let A be a noetherian local ring, and let C in PA be a family of curves, flat over A. We showed in an earlier paper how to associate to C a locally free sheaf N on PA, and we showed that two families of curves C,C′ are in the same biliaison class if and only if the corresponding sheaves N,N ′ are pseudoisomorphic (generalization of the theorem Rao). In this paper we show how to find all the fla...

In his celebrated Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura published over the period 1537–1575 Sebastiano Serlio introduced four techniques for constructing ovals which have thereafter been applied by many architects across Europe. Using various geometric forms (i.e. the triangle, square, and circle) as a basis they produced ovals made up from four circular arcs. This paper analyses both Serlio’s construct...