Introduction Haemodialysis patients with central venous catheter (HD-CVC) are at increased risk of exit site infections (ESIs) and catheter-related bloodstream infections, causing an increase of ...

162 cases of renal transplant patients in our hospital from January 2020 to September 2024 were included. The clinical data of the patients were retrospectively analyzed. According to whether ...

The ultimate success of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) depends on how well the health insurance exchanges can bring the benefits of private competition to individuals in the form of lower premiums.

treehfd is a Python module to compute the Hoeffding functional decomposition of XGBoost models (Chen and Guestrin, 2016) with dependent input variables, using the TreeHFD algorithm. This decomposition ...

ACA Research Group, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland. The content of this paper is divided into four short sections. In the first section, the motivation and content of ...

Flat prior (not usually recommended); Super-vague but proper prior: normal(0, 1e6) (not usually recommended); Weakly informative prior, very weak: normal(0, 10); Generic weakly informative prior: ...

aDepartment of Pediatrics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China bDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, 100020, China ...

These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Multilevel modelling has rapidly become established as the appropriate tool for modelling data with complex hierarchical structures. It is important for extending our understanding of social, ...

ABSTRACT: Non-responses leading to missing data are common in most studies and causes inefficient and biased statistical inferences if ignored. When faced with missing data, many studies choose to ...

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