Early heart disease control can be achieved by high disease prediction and diagnosis efficiency. This paper focuses on the use of model based clustering techniques to predict and diagnose heart disease via Poisson mixture regression models. Analysis and application of Poisson mixture regression models is here addressed under two different classes: standard and concomitant variable mixture regre...

In this paper we consider inference based on very general divergence measures, under assumptions of multinomial sampling and loglinear models. We define the minimum φ-divergence estimator, which is seen to be a generalization of the maximum likelihood estimator. This estimator is then used in a φ-divergence goodness-of-fit statistic, which is the basis of two new statistics for solving the prob...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the associations between nutrition and dental caries in permanent dentition among schoolchildren. methods: a cross-sectional survey was undertaken on 698 schoolchildren aged 10 to 12 yr from a random sample of primary schools in kermanshah, western iran, in 2014. the study was based on the data obtained from the questionnaire containing informatio...