Social development is essential for improving quality of life, fostering stability, driving
economic growth, achieving sustainable goals, enhancing human capital, encouraging civic …

Background Genome-wide association studies (GWASes) aim to identify single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with a given phenotype. A common approach for the …

Chapter 2 summarizes recent developments related to intrinsic conditional autoregressive
(ICAR) models for Gaussian areal data that make inference for these models fast, automatic …

The problem of model selection in regression analysis through the use of forward selection,
backward elimination, and stepwise selection has been well explored in the literature. The …

Genome-wide associated study (GWAS) aims to identify associated single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNP) for phenotypes. SNP has the characteristic that the number of SNPs is …

One important aspect in the practical implementation of spatio-temporal models is the choice
of priors for the hyperparameters. Because many spatio-temporal models are built as highly …

Let yi denote the observed value in the ith study and θi the corresponding true parameter.
We assume that yi= θi+ εi,(1) where εi∼ N (0, νi) denotes the sampling error and εi the …