Background After domestication, the evolution of phenotypically-varied sheep breeds has
generated rich biodiversity. This wide phenotypic variation arises as a result of hidden …

Despite massive investments in drug research and development, the significant decline in
the number of new drugs approved or translated to clinical use raises the question, whether …

This paper proposes a reformulation of count models as a special case of generalized
ordered-response models in which a single latent continuous variable is partitioned into …

Background Two characteristics of commonly used outcomes in medical research are zero
inflation and non-negative integers; examples include the number of hospital admissions or …

Counting data (including zero counts) appear in a variety of applications, so counting
models have become popular in many fields. In statistical fields, count data can be defined …

Variations in wool characteristics due to location on the body of sheep are reviewed and
compared with variation from other sources. The biological basis for variation and the …

We estimated genetic parameters for two in vivo embryo production-related superovulatory
response traits—total number of embryos and oocytes (TNE) and number of good embryos …

Cattle resistance to ticks is measured by the number of ticks infesting the animal. The model
used for the genetic analysis of cattle resistance to ticks frequently requires logarithmic …

This study proposes an efficacious approach to analyze the over-dispersed insurance
frequency data as it is imperative for the insurers to have decisive informative insights for …

Maternal mortality remains very high in Mozambique, with estimates from 2015 showing a
maternal mortality ratio of 489 deaths per 100,000 live births, even though the rates tend to …