Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used in biomedical research and other scientific areas to model complex dynamic systems. It is an important statistical problem to estimate parameters ...

Penalized least squares estimates provide a way to balance fitting the data closely and avoiding excessive roughness or rapid variation. A penalized least squares estimate is a surface that minimizes ...

The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...

Purpose To map the Shah-modified Barthel Index (SBI) to the Health Utility Index Mark III (HUI-3) in stroke patients, and to compare the performance of a recently developed method called the Mean Rank ...