Analysing continuous proportions in ecology and evolution: A practical introduction to beta and Dirichlet regression

JC Douma, JT Weedon - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Proportional data, in which response variables are expressed as percentages or fractions of
a whole, are analysed in many subfields of ecology and evolution. The scale‐independence …

The e-value: a fully Bayesian significance measure for precise statistical hypotheses and its research program

CAB Pereira, JM Stern - São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 2022 - Springer
This article gives a survey of the e-value, a statistical significance measure aka the evidence
rendered by observational data, X, in support of a statistical hypothesis, H, or, the other way …

A guideline for the statistical analysis of compositional data in immunology

J Yoo, Z Sun, M Greenacre, Q Ma, D Chung… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The study of immune cellular composition has been of great scientific interest in immunology
because of the generation of multiple large-scale data. From the statistical point of view …

A method for Bayesian regression modelling of composition data

S Van der Merwe - South African Statistical Journal, 2019 - journals.co.za
Many scientific and industrial processes produce data that is best analysed as vectors of
relative values, often called compositions or proportions. The Dirichlet distribution is a …

Small area estimation of average compositions under multivariate nested error regression models

MD Esteban, MJ Lombardía, E López-Vizcaíno… - Test, 2023 - Springer
This paper investigates the small area estimation of population averages of unit-level
compositional data. The new methodology transforms the compositions into vectors of R m …

A Bayesian group selection with compositional responses for analysis of radiologic tumor proportions and their genomic determinants

T Chekouo, FC Stingo, S Mohammed… - The Annals of Applied …, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
The Supplementary Material contains details about group selection prior in univariable
regression models, sensitivity analysis, additional data analyses, MCMC diagnostics, and …

The e-value and the full Bayesian significance test: logical properties and philosophical consequences

JM Stern, CAB Pereira, MS Lauretto… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This article gives a conceptual review of the e-value, ev (H| X)--the epistemic value of
hypothesis H given observations X. This statistical significance measure was developed in …

Understanding the spatial variations in the diets of two Sturnira bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Argentina

MS Sánchez, DA Dos Santos - Journal of Mammalogy, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Frugivorous phyllostomid bats are a diverse group and one of the major partners of fleshy-
fruited plants in seed dispersal mutualisms. The first step towards comprehension of …

Lane flow distribution of congested traffic on three-lane freeways

P Reina, S Ahn - International journal of transportation science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This research presents an empirical analysis of lane flow distribution (LFD) in three-lane
congested freeways. Data from 72 sites were analyzed to investigate LFD trends with …

Bayesian dynamic dirichlet models

CQ Da-Silva, GS Rodrigues - Communications in Statistics …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The main purpose of this article is the study of statistical models for compositional data,
which are characterized by random vectors defined on the open standard (k− 1)-simplex …