OBJECTIVES Linear growth impairment frequently accompanies chronic kidney disease in children. Despite successful renal transplant, growth retardation may persist in renal allograft recipients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We recorded the longitudinal growth and biochemical data of prepubertal children during the first 2 years after renal transplant in 34 children (18 boys [52.9%]; mean age at renal...

The purpose of the present paper is to establish explicit bounds on moderate deviation probabilities for a rather general class of geometric functionals enjoying the stabilization property, under Poisson input and the assumption of a certain control over the growth of the moments of the functional and its radius of stabilization. Our proof techniques rely on cumulant expansions and cluster meas...

background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (osas) is a prevalent disease in adults. limited evidence regarding the effect of severity of sleep apnea and depression on heart rate variability (hrv) indices exists. hence, we decided to focus on the association between hrv and severity of osas based on depression score. materials and methods: a total of 193 patients with confirmed o...

A Cramér-type moderate deviation theorem quantifies the relative error of tail probability approximation. It provides a criterion whether limiting can be used to estimate under study. Chen, Fang and Shao (2013) obtained general result using Stein’s method when was normal distribution. In this paper, theorems are established for nonnormal approximation Stein identity, which is satisfied via exch...