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College adjustment in University of Michigan students with Crohn's and colitis
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008-09)
Background: Adjustment to college is critical for academic success. Poor college adjustment correlates with poor academic performance, low graduation rates, and poor success later in life. Limited data are available on ...
Isotonic smoothing splines under sequential designs
(Elsevier, 1994-01)
Isotonic smoothing splines are introduced as a natural extension of ordinary isotonic estimates in the estimation of a regression function [mu](x)=E{Y|X=x}. A constructive characterization for the isotonic smoothing splines ...
Tectonic and Topographic Framework of Political Division
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; International Association for Mathematical Geology ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-02)
Boundaries between the various topographic, geologic, and socio-political entities that span the Earth’s continental surfaces are determined by a myriad of complexly interrelated natural and/or cultural factors. Areas of ...
A Profile Conditional Likelihood Approach for the Semiparametric Transformation Regression Model with Missing Covariates
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-09)
We propose a profile conditional likelihood approach to handle missing covariates in the general semiparametric transformation regression model. The method estimates the marginal survival function by the Kaplan-Meier ...
A model of weak selection in the infinite alleles framework
(Springer-Verlag, 1986-08)
Ewens (1972) proposed a model in the infinite allele framework for populations with neutrality of all alleles at a particular locus. This paper proposes a generalisation of Ewens' result for situations where there is a ...
Queueing Networks of Random Link Topology: Stationary Dynamics of Maximal Throughput Schedules
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-05)
In this paper, we study the stationary dynamics of a processing system comprised of several parallel queues and a single server of constant rate. The connectivity of the server to each queue is randomly modulated, taking ...
Genetic counseling for BRCA1 / 2 : A randomized controlled trial of two strategies to facilitate the education and counseling process This article contains supplementary material, which may be viewed at the American Journal of Medical Genetics website at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1552–4825/suppmat/index.html .
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-04-01)
Due to the complexity of information surrounding BRCA1 / 2 counseling and testing and its time consuming nature, efforts to facilitate the genetic counseling and education process are needed. Using a 2 × 2 factorial ...
A Conceptual Framework for Adaptive Preventive Interventions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Society for Prevention Research ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-09)
Recently, adaptive interventions have emerged as a new perspective on prevention and treatment. Adaptive interventions resemble clinical practice in that different dosages of certain prevention or treatment components are ...
Rural motor vehicle crash mortality: The role of crash severity and medical resources
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
We did a retrospective case control study to examine the relationship between the risk of dying for Michigan motor vehicle crash (MVC) drivers and the type of county (rural/nonrural) of crash occurrence, while adjusting ...