Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified numerous loci associated with complex traits, imprecise modeling of the genetic relatedness within study samples may cause substantial ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Consider the heteroscedastic nonparametric regression model with random design Yi = f(Xi) + V1/2(Xi)εi, i = 1,2,...,n, with f(·) and V(·) α- ...

Model fit can be assessed using the difference between the model's predictions and new data (prediction error—our focus this month) or between the estimated and ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 57, No. 1 (2008), pp. 75-87 (13 pages) Complex survey sampling is often used to sample a fraction of a large finite ...

In this sense, the proposed method is an extension of the variance of the regression estimator for two-stage sampling. The method is applied to quarterly data from the Labor Force Survey where ...