Purpose: By adopting more appropriate and powerful statistical methods that fully exploit longitudinal structure, we reanalyze and extend previously published results from a large community trial to investigate the effect ...

In this paper, we propose a random intercept Poisson model in which the random effect is assumed to follow a generalized log-gamma (GLG) distribution. This random effect accommodates (or captures) the overdispersion in the ...

We present a perturbative formalism to deal with linear random positive maps. We generalize the biological concept of the population growth rate when a Leslie matrix has random elements (i.e. characterizing the macroscopic ...

We quantified the potential increase in accuracy of expected breeding value for weights of Nelore cattle, from birth to mature age, using multi-trait and random regression models on Legendre polynomials and B-spline ...

We quantified the potential increase in accuracy of expected breeding value for weights of Nelore cattle, from birth to mature age, using multi-trait and random regression models on Legendre polynomials and B-spline ...