background: multifactorial regression models are frequently used in medicine to estimate survival rate of patients across risk groups. however, their results are not generalisable, if in the development of models assumptions required are not satisfied.  missing data is a common problem in pathology. the aim of this paper is to address the danger of exclusion of cases with missing data, and to h...

the relation between single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) and some diseases has been concerned by many researchers. also the missing snps are quite common in genetic association studies. hence, this article investigates the relation between existing snps in dnmt1 of human chromosome 19 with colorectal cancer. this article aims is to presents an imputation method for missing snps not at random...

This paper presents for the first time, to our knowledge, a framework verifying neural network behavior in power system applications. Up this moment, networks have been applied systems as black-box; has presented major barrier their adoption practice. Developing rigorous based on mixed integer linear programming, methods can determine range of inputs that classify safe or unsafe, and are able s...

background and aims. hypodontia is a common developmental abnormality of dentition. this study aimed to determine tooth width in patients affected with mild hypodontia and compare the results with a control group without tooth agenesis. materials and methods. the orthodontic records of 25 patients with congenital missing of one or two teeth (hypodontia group), and 25 subjects with full dentitio...