background:accident is the secondary cause of mortality in iran, background of its occurrence and mortality are not wholly understood. the aim of this paper is to explain seasonal occurrence and mortality pattern of traffic accidents in isfahan population, iranmethods: this study is a cross-sectional analytic study. we extracted data on traffic accidents for isfahan province from the ministry o...

In this paper, penalized power-divergence test statistics have been defined and their exact size properties to test a nested sequence of log-linear models have been compared with ordinary power-divergence test statistics for various penalization, λ and main effect values. Since the ordinary and penalized powerdivergence test statistics have the same asymptotic distribution, comparisons have bee...

The machine learning community has focused on confidentiality problems associated with statistical analyses that “integrate” data stored in multiple, distributed databases where there are barriers to simply integrating the databases. This paper discusses various techniques which can be used to perform statistical analysis for categorical data, especially in the form of log-linear analysis and l...

A scant few weeks ago disentanglement of effects identified in purely categorical designs in which all variables are categorical, including notoriously-complex rectangular categorical designs (RCDs) in which variables have a different number of response categories, was poorly understood. However, univariate and multivariate optimal (“maximum-accuracy”) statistical methods, specifically UniODA a...