background : the age standardized incidence rates of esophageal cancer in women and men in iran have the fifth and eighth ranks, respectively. due to the high incidence rate of esophageal cancer and the necessity of knowledge of its geographical distribution, the incidence of this cancer was mapped at province and county levels in the present study. methods: the study population of this empiric...

the  main  assumptions  in  liner  mixed  model  are normality  and  independency  of  random  effect component.   unfortunately,   these   two  assumptions   might   be  unrealistic   in  some   situations. therefore, in this paper, we will discuss about the analysis of bayesian analysis of non-normal and non-independent mixed model using skew-normal/independent distributions, and finally, thi...

OBJECTIVE Large health care datasets normally have a hierarchical structure, in terms of levels, as the data have been obtained from different practices, hospitals, or regions. Multilevel regression is the technique commonly used to deal with such multilevel data. However, for the statistical analysis of interactions between entities from a domain, multilevel regression yields little to no insi...

We propose and analyze deterministic multilevel approximations for Bayesian inversion of operator equations with uncertain distributed parameters, subject to additive gaussian measurement data. The algorithms use a multilevel (ML) approach based on deterministic, higher order quasi-Monte Carlo (HoQMC) quadrature for approximating the high-dimensional expectations, which arise in the Bayesian es...

We sought to examine several positive and negative correlates of resilience (i.e., affect, gratitude, perceived stress, subjective happiness, mastery, and emotional reactivity) in a community sample of adolescents and adults and to determine whether these correlates of resilience differed between the groups. Seventy-nine community residents of an Upper Midwest community (48 adolescents aged 12-...

The problem of profiling and filtering the Web content is important particularly for mobile applications where wireless network traffic and mobile terminal size are limited comparing to the Internet access from the PC. Bayesian networks are known to be good tool for learning user preferences in electronic commerce. However more sophisticated cases, when user preferences are changing according t...

Meuleman and Billiet (2009) have carried out a simulation study aimed at the question how many countries are needed for accurate multilevel SEM estimation in comparative studies. The authors concluded that a sample of 50 to 100 countries is needed for accurate estimation. Recently, Bayesian estimation methods have been introduced in structural equation modeling which should work well with much ...

Graphical processing units are rapidly gaining maturity as powerful general parallel computing devices. The package cudaBayesreg uses GPU–oriented procedures to improve the performance of Bayesian computations. The paper motivates the need for devising highperformance computing strategies in the context of fMRI data analysis. Some features of the package for Bayesian analysis of brain fMRI data...