Additive models with autoregressive symmetric errors based on penalized regression splines

Author(s):  
Rodrigo A. Oliveira ◽  
Gilberto A. Paula
2007 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. HENS ◽  
M. AERTS ◽  
Z. SHKEDY ◽  
P. KUNG'U KIMANI ◽  
M. KOJOUHOROVA ◽  
...  

SUMMARYThe objective of this study was to model the age–time-dependent incidence of hepatitis B while estimating the impact of vaccination. While stochastic models/time-series have been used before to model hepatitis B cases in the absence of knowledge on the number of susceptibles, this paper proposed using a method that fits into the generalized additive model framework. Generalized additive models with penalized regression splines are used to exploit the underlying continuity of both age and time in a flexible non-parametric way. Based on a unique case notification dataset, we have shown that the implemented immunization programme in Bulgaria resulted in a significant decrease in incidence for infants in their first year of life with 82% (79–84%). Moreover, we have shown that conditional on an assumed baseline susceptibility percentage, a smooth force-of-infection profile can be obtained from which two local maxima were observed at ages 9 and 24 years.


2019 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne Nothdurft ◽  
Markus Engel

Abstract Penalized regression splines and distributed lag models were used to evaluate the effects of species mixing on productivity and climate-related resistance via tree-ring width measurements from sample cores. Data were collected in Lower Austria from sample plots arranged in a triplet design. Triplets were established for sessile oak [Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.] and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.], and European beech and European larch (Larix decidua Mill.). Mixing shortened the temporal range of time-lagged climate effects for beech, spruce, and larch, but only slightly changed the effects for oak and pine. Beech and spruce as well as beech and larch exhibited contrasting climate responses, which were consequently reversed by mixing. Single-tree productivity was reduced by between − 15% and − 28% in both the mixed oak–pine and beech–spruce stands but only slightly reduced in the mixed beech–larch stands. Measures of climate sensitivity and resistance were derived by model predictions of conditional expectations for simulated climate sequences. The relative climate sensitivity was, respectively, reduced by between − 16 and − 39 percentage points in both the beech–spruce and beech–larch mixed stands. The relative climate sensitivity of pine increased through mixing, but remained unaffected for oak. Mixing increased the resistance in both the beech–larch and the beech–spruce mixed stand. In the mixed oak–pine stand, resistance of pine was decreased and remained unchanged for oak.


2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam ◽  
Gerda Claeskens ◽  
Christophe Croux ◽  
Matias Salibián-Barrera

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani ◽  
Bani K Mallick ◽  
Raymond J Carroll

Biometrics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1037-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Harezlak ◽  
Louise M. Ryan ◽  
Jay N. Giedd ◽  
Nicholas Lange

Author(s):  
E. D. Clarke ◽  
D. C. Speirs ◽  
M. R. Heath ◽  
S. N. Wood ◽  
W. S. C. Gurney ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam ◽  
Christophe Croux ◽  
Gerda Claeskens ◽  
Matias Salibian-Barrera

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