Approximation of the Cox survival regression model by MCMC Bayesian Hierarchical Poisson modelling of factors associated with childhood mortality in Nigeria

Abstract The need for more pragmatic approaches to achieve sustainable development goal on childhood mortality reduction necessitated this study.Simultaneous study of the influence of where the children live and the censoring nature of children survival data is scarce.We identified the compositional and contextual factors associated with under-five

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Risk Perception of Septic Shock with Multiple Organ Failure Due to Acute Exacerbation of an Infectious Dental Disease

Hikaru Sato, Takashi Tamanoi, Takuya Suzuki, Hikaru Moriyama, Shota Abe, Kenji Yoshida, Hiroyoshi Kawaai, Shinya Yamazaki Department of Dental Anesthesiology, Ohu University, School of Dentistry, Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, JapanCorrespondence: Shinya YamazakiDepartment of Dental Anesthesiology, Ohu University, School of Dentistry, 31-1 Mi

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Juvenile wood volume and its proportion to stem volume vs. selected biometric features of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees

The aim of the study was to determine whether there is a correlation between breast height diameter, tree height and stem total volume of Scots pines, on the one hand, and volume and proportion of juvenile wood, on the other.The investigations comprised pure pine stands of the IInd, IIIrd, IVth and Vth age classes developed in Arrow conditions of f

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