This study relates the Poisson, mixed Poisson (MP), generalized Poisson (GP) and finite
Poisson mixture (FPM) regression models through mean-variance relationship, and …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of party politics in shaping the evolution of the
welfare state, and thus social expenditure, in selected developed democracies. To achieve …

1.1 Background The study of health care utilization answers important health care questions.
An appropriate management of health care utilization assists to prevent serious health …

Linear mixed models provide a flexible, intuitive method for analyzing repeated-measures
data when the population being studied can be thought of as either a single population or as …

The research in the field of travel demand modeling is driven by the need to understand
individuals' behavior in the context of travel-related decisions as accurately as possible. In …

Breast cancer intratumor heterogeneity challenges our ability to predict patients' outcomes
or responses to targeted therapy; yet, available methods are limited to measure intratumor …

Falls are a common recurrent event for People with Parkinson's (PwP) and may result in
injuries and loss of independence in daily activities. Falls prevention trials evaluate whether …

Artificial intelligence has permeated almost every area of life in modern society, and its
significance continues to grow. As a result, in recent years, Soft Computing has emerged as …

Artificial intelligence has permeated almost every area of life in modern society, and its
significance continues to grow. As a result, in recent years, Soft Computing has emerged as …

This dissertation considers the problem of learning the underlying statistical structure of
complex data sets for fitting a generative model, and for both supervised and unsupervised …