Obesity is considered an important factor for many chronic diseases, including diabetes,
cardiovascular disease and cancer. The expansion of adipose tissue in obesity is due to an …

Most plant species are spatially aggregated. Local demographic and ecological processes
(eg vegetative growth and limited seed dispersal) result in a clustered spatial pattern within …

This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location,
Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and …

Do the effects of corporate governance on corporate capital structure choices change as a
public firm ages? First, we address the direct effects of firm age and governance features on …

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to
modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response …

Intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria are found in many terrestrial arthropods and have a
profound influence on host biology. A basic question about these symbionts is why they …

This paper proposes a general class of regression models for continuous proportions when
the data contain zeros or ones. The proposed class of models assumes that the response …

Credit Scoring and Its Applications, Second Edition : Back Matter Page 1 Bibliography [1]
Acharya, VV, Bharath, ST, and Srinivasan, A. (2007) Does industry-wide distress affect …

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are narrow corridors within the warm conveyor belt of extratropical
cyclones in which the majority of the poleward water vapour transport occurs. These …

Aim Palms are an iconic, diverse and often abundant component of tropical ecosystems that
provide many ecosystem services. Being monocots, tree palms are evolutionarily …