BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes mellitus have been associated with a number of changes in the oral cavity, such as gingivitis, periodontitis, mucosal diseases, salivary dysfunction, altered taste, and burning mouth. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in patients with diabetes mellitus. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study between August and October 201...

This paper examines the validity of some stylized statements that can be found in the actuarial literature about random effects models. Specifically, the actual meaning of the estimated parameters and the nature of the residual heterogeneity are discussed. A numerical illustration performed on a Belgian motor third party liability portfolio supports this discussion.

At the point when there is collinearity between reaction variable and various illustrative factors, displaying connection a few informative factors troublesome. While surveying count information, Poisson relapse model (PRM) generally utilized in applied research. A shrinkage assessor consistently answer for multicollinearity issue. One of these assessors Kibria Lukman (K-L). In this paper, jack...

Excess female mortality during childhood is a distinct and unrelieved phenomenon in India, particularly in the two northern Indian states— Punjab and Haryana. This paper investigates the basic facts of sex differentials in child mortality in a very comprehensive manner using the three rounds of NFHS data sets from 1992 to 2006. More specifically, this paper examines the following three basic qu...

(a) Obtain the expression for the deviance for comparison of the full model, which assumes a different µ i for each y i , with a reduced model defined by a Poisson GLM with link function g(·).