Abstract: The seemingly disjoint problems of count and mixture modeling are united under the negative binomial (NB) process. A gamma process is employed to model the rate measure of a Poisson process, ...

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This course is designed to prepare students conceptually and mathematically for ECON*2560, Theory of Finance and ECON*3740, Introduction to Econometrics. Topics include the summation operator, ...

The zero-inflated negative binomial distribution has been widely used for count data analyses in various biomedical settings due to its capacity of modeling excess zeros and overdispersion. When there ...

Trading off benefits and harms requires knowledge of the absolute risk reduction or risk difference, making risk difference a critical measure for decision making. The confidence interval of risk ...

Introduction: Ecuador harbors an astounding number of ecosystems and species. However, anthropogenic land-use changes are the primary drivers of biodiversity loss in major taxonomic groups, especially ...

Bivariate meta-analysis provides a useful framework for combining information across related studies and has been utilized to combine evidence from clinical studies to evaluate treatment efficacy on ...

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