OBJECTIVE To examine whether the effect of conventional lifestyle interventions on type 2
diabetes incidence differs by glucose-defined prediabetes phenotype. RESEARCH DESIGN …

Objectives This study aimed to compare the success and survival rates of metal-ceramic
crowns and composite resin restorations applied in root filled teeth that received a glass …

Objectives Post and core (PC) is frequently used, but clinical evidence concerning how long
a post must be is scarce. Recommendations in dental literature range from half of the root …

A crucial feature of the democratic life cycle, government stability, has prompted the interest
of many scholars across the globe. As a result, research on this matter has established itself …

Survival analysis is a fundamental tool in medical science for time-to-event data. However,
its application to colony organisms like bees poses challenges due to their social nature …

This article presents accelerated failure time models with and without frailty for modeling
multiple systems subject to minimal repair. The study considers the conventional …

Semi-competing risks refer to the phenomenon where a primary outcome event (such as
mortality) can truncate an intermediate event (such as relapse of a disease), but not vice …

This research delves into the temporal dynamics of a nation's pursuit of a targeted GDP per
capita level, employing five different survival machine learning models, remarkably Deep …

University of Groningen Health Risks in Old Age van der Vaart, Jeroen Page 1 University of
Groningen Health Risks in Old Age van der Vaart, Jeroen DOI: 10.33612/diss.1004812176 …

This thesis is composed of six topics related to statistical inference on unobserved random
effects, each centered around the concept of extended likelihood that incorporates …