We propose a new approach for estimating the state-level direct and indirect economic cost of obesity in the United States for the time period 1996 to 2018. Our unique top-down …
The research area of scan statistics has seen a tremendous growth in the last 25 years. The modern development of this active area of research originated from the seminal work of …
Motivated by a product warranty claims dataset, we propose clustered coefficient regression models in a nonhomogeneous Poisson process for recurrent event data. The proposed …
Public health surveillance stratifies populations into age groups to help identify threats and provide appropriate responses. However, there is considerable variation in the age …
In this chapter, we review the testing procedures that have been investigated in the scientific literature for detecting a local change in the parameters of a normal distribution, for one-and …
JM Escandón, M Catanzaro, JG Christiano… - Journal of Plastic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Obesity is a multisystem disease process that confers increased surgical risk. In patients who are not surgical candidates for breast reconstruction with implants/tissue …
K Vorpe, S Hessinger, R Poth… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Current methods for clustering adult obesity prevalence by state focus on creating a single map of obesity prevalence for a given year in the United States. Comparing these maps for …
X Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11258, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this article, a new method, called FWP, is proposed for clustering longitudinal curves. In the proposed method, clusters of mean functions are identified through a weighted concave …