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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPROBING NON-ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED MEDICINES? A BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION WITH INFORMATION NUCLEUS CLARIFIESRamalingam ShanmugamNo illness gets cured without the patient’s adherence to the prescribed medicine (s). Reasons such as too many medicines, lack of health insurance coverage, high co-payment cost, loss of cognitive memory to take. are commonly noticed for non-adherence. In some illnesses, the patients who do not adhere to the prescribed medicines end up again in hospital. How should the pertinent … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 17 Jul 2014 · 7,223 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPOISSON-WEIGHTED EXPONENTIAL UNIVARIATE VERSION AND REGRESSION MODEL WITH APPLICATIONSHossein Zamani, Noriszura Ismail, Pouya FaroughiThis study introduces a new two-parameter mixed Poisson distribution, namely Poisson-Weighted Exponential (P-WE), which is obtained by mixing Poisson distribution with a new class of weighted exponential distribution. The new P-WE distribution provides a more flexible alternative for modelling over dispersed count data compared to Poisson distribution. The estimation procedures of P-WE distribution via method of moments and maximum likelihood … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 8 Mar 2014 · 7,341 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS WITH SPATIAL RANDOM EFFECTS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA: AN APPLICATION TO DENGUE FEVER MAPPINGKrisada Lekdee, Lily IngsrisawangThe Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) with spatial random effects for spatio-temporal data are proposed. A hierarchical Bayesian method is used for parameter estimation. The random effects are assumed to be normally distributed and the spatial random effects are assumed to be proper Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) models. The proposed models are applied to Dengue fever data in Northern Thailand, including … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 13 May 2013 · 8,065 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRELATIONSHIPS AMONG INDICATORS OF FITNESS, FATNESS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS IN ADOLESCENTSRobert Malina, Stephen-Mark Cooper, John Young et al.In adults, fatness and low cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with a higher prevalence of chronic disease risk and mortality. The association between measures of physical fitness and fatness upon cardiovascular risk in youth, however, is less clear. The effects of adiposity and physical fitness upon cardiovascular disease risk factors in youth are receiving increasing attention but studies that have examined … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 7 Aug 2012 · 8,114 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTruncated Estimate in Log-Binomial Model: Algorithm and SimulationLuyan Dai, Yang Li, Ye ShenProblem statement: Relative risk has concrete meanings of comparing two groups and measuring the association between exposures and outcomes in medical and public health studies. Log-binomial model, using a log link function on binary outcomes, is straightforward to estimate risk ratios, whereas generates boundary problems. When the estimates are located near the boundary of constrained parameter space, common approaches or … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 7 May 2012 · 8,291 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIntervened 2-Tier Poisson Distribution for Understanding Hospital Site InfectivityR. ShanmugamProblem statement: Whether it is a surgical site or medical treatment at a hospital site, the nurses in particular and the entire medical team including surgeons/physicians in general undergo a risk of being infected ironically by the patients whom they intend to disinfect. There are 2-tiers of patients at the site. One type consists of patients who are internally and … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2012 · 6,925 accessesView PDF Cite