• Reply to Drs Almendra‐Arao and Sotres‐Ramos regarding Barnard's concept of convexity and possible extensions 

  Ripamonti, E; Lloyd, C (Wiley, 2020-05-01)

  On p. 130 of his 1947's seminal paper, Barnard1 wrote: “we propose that in our ordering, the two points which, respectively, have the same abscissa or the same ordinate as (a, b), and which lie further from the diagonal ...

• Systematic review of education and practical guidance on regression modeling for medical researchers who lack a strong statistical background: Study protocol 

  Bach, P; Wallisch, C; Klein, N; Hafermann, L; Sauerbrei, W; Steyerberg, EW; Heinze, G; Rauch, G (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2020-12-21)

  In the last decades, statistical methodology has developed rapidly, in particular in the field of regression modeling. Multivariable regression models are applied in almost all medical research projects. Therefore, the ...

• Quality and resource efficiency in hospital service provision: A geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis of stroke quality of care in Germany 

  Pross, C; Strumann, C; Geissler, A; Herwartz, H; Klein, N (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2018-09-06)

  We specify a Bayesian, geoadditive Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model to assess hospital performance along the dimensions of resources and quality of stroke care in German hospitals. With 1,100 annual observations ...

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