the objective of the present study was to estimate heritability values for some performance and egg quality traits of native fowl in isfahan breeding center using reml and bayesian approaches. the records were about 51521 and 975 for performance and egg quality traits, respectively. at the first step, variance components were estimated for body weight at hatch (bw0), body weight at 8 weeks of a...

Distributed linear solutions of the EEG source localization problem are used routinely. Here we describe an approach based on the weighted minimum norm method that imposes constraints using anatomical and physiological information derived from other imaging modalities to regularize the solution. In this approach the hyperparameters controlling the degree of regularization are estimated using re...

The main aim of considerations in the problem of estimation of variance components σ 1 and σ 2 2 by using the ML-method and REML-method in normal mixed linear model N{Y, E(Y ) = Xβ, Cov(Y ) = σ 1V + σ 2In} was concerned in the examination of theirs efficiency. It is particularly important when an explicit form of these estimators is unknown and we search for the solutions of the likelihood equa...

A multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) with occurrence of onset REM periods (SOREMP) is considered one the central diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy according to International Classification Sleep Disorders, but its sensitivity and specificity have been questioned. This study aims describe MSLT polysomnography (PSG) findings, including frequency distribution SOREMP during day, in a large cohort ...

Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) is the most recommended approach for fitting a Linear Mixed Model (LMM) nowadays. Yet, as ML, REML suffers drawback that it performs such by assuming normality both random effects and residual errors, dubious assumption many real data sets. Now, there have been several attempts at trying to justify use of likelihood equations outside Gaussian world, with var...