The primary aim in this study was to use a joint analysis approach to examine the association between longitudinal change of depressive symptoms and mortality in older Mexican Americans. The joint model was applied to data from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE), a seven year longitudinal study of communitydwelling elderly Mexican-Americans. De...

We propose a method for computation of the Hessian of axially symmetric functions on the roto-translation group SE(3). Eigendecomposition of the resulting Hessian is then used for curvature estimation of tubular structures, similar to how the Hessian matrix of 2D or 3D image data can be used for orientation estimation. This paper focuses on a new implementation of a Gaussian regularized Hessian...

In this paper, a mathematical model containing two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function in its definition is proposed to be used for the first time to fit the relation between unemployment rate and inflation rate, also known as the Phillips curve. The Phillips curve is in the literature often represented by an exponential-like shape. On the other hand, Phillips in his fundamental paper used a powe...

Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curve serves as a statistical tool to measure the quality of Biomarker in 5 accessing the accuracy of any diagnostic test. This paper portrays the historical background of ROC curve and reviews various 6 parametric methods adopted for fitting the ROC curve till date. The parametric ROC models that are considered in this paper 7 are Bi-Normal, Bi-Gamma, B...

Zambounis A., Samaras A., Xanthopoulou A., Osathanunkul M., Schena L., Tsaftaris A., Madesis P. (2016): Identification of Phytophthora species by a high resolution melting analysis: an innovative tool for rapid differentiation. Plant Protect. Sci., 52. A new molecular method via the high resolution melting (HRM) analysis of the Ypt1 gene non-coding regions was validated for ten Phytophthora spe...

Increased usage of single parameter life-time distributions for reference in development other and data modeling has attracted the interest researchers. Because performance ratings differ from one distribution to another there are increased need that delivers improved fits, new with a better rating capable providing fits have evolved Literature. One such is Iwueze’s distribution. proposed as Ga...

We derive the full phase diagram for a large family of exponential random graph models, each containing a first order transition curve ending in a critical point.

We develop Bayesian reference analyses for linear regression models when the errors follow an exponential power distribution. Specifically, we obtain explicit expressions for reference priors for all the six possible orderings of the model parameters and show that, associated with these six parameters orderings, there are only two reference priors. Further, we show that both of these reference ...