The mortality evolution of small populations often exhibits substantial variability and irregular
improvement patterns making it hard to identify underlying trends and produce plausible …

PURPOSE Although a diagnosis of childhood cancer can have a profound effect on the
entire family unit, its impact on the long-term mental health of family members is not well …

Both macro and micro level research exhibits signs of a turnaround in the relation between
female labour force participation and fertility. However, it can be expected that this …

Importance Strategies to improve the course of recurrent major depressive disorder have
great public health relevance. To reduce the risk of relapse/recurrence after acute phase …

We present mexhaz, an R package for fitting flexible hazard-based regression models with
the possibility to add time-dependent effects of covariates and to account for a twolevel …

What causes interindividual variation in fitness? Evidence of heritability of latent individual
fitness traits has resparked a debate about the causes of variation in life histories in …

The concept of frailty plays a major role in the statistical field of survival analysis. Frailty
variation refers to differences in risk between individuals which go beyond known or …

Human activity can dramatically affect personality traits in birds and small mammals.
However, we know very little about how anthropogenic disturbance shapes personality in …

Semiparametric, multiplicative-form regression models are specified for marginal single and
double failure hazard rates for the regression analysis of multivariate failure time data. Cox …

Fire danger systems have evolved from qualitative indices, to process-driven deterministic
models of fire behavior and growth, to data-driven stochastic models of fire occurrence and …