Research on the uptake and effects of bioplastics by aquatic organisms is still in its infancy. Here, we aim to advance the field by comparing uptake and effects of microplastic particles (MPP) of a biodegradable bioMPP (polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)) and petroleum-based MPP (polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)) in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum. Ingestion of both MPP in different particle siz...

In this article, we study the semiparametric proportional odds model with random effects for correlated, right-censored failure time data. We establish that the maximum likelihood estimators for the parameters of this model are consistent and asymptotically Gaussian. Furthermore, the limiting variances achieve the semiparametric efficiency bounds and can be consistently estimated. Simulation st...