Akaike's information criterion (AIC)
Species-specific, pan-European diameter increment models based on data of 2.3 million trees
... AIC: Akaike ’ s information criterion; C-: Explanatory variables related to climate; CBD: United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); CBM- CFS3: Carbon Budget Model of the C[r] ...
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Drive for muscularity behaviors in male bodybuilders: a trans-contextual model of motivation
... AIC: Akaike ’ s information criterion; AM: Autonomous motivation for sport; Att: Attitude to gain muscle mass; BREQ: Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire; CFA: Confirmatory factor ...
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Oral health status among newly arrived refugees in Germany: a cross-sectional study
... Akaike’s information criterion AIC and Bayesian infor- mation criterion BIC, the test showed a preference of NBRM with a very strong evidence over other models usually used for count ...
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Evidence and Evolution: The logic behind the science: Elliott Sober Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; 2008;
... the Akaike criterion is overdone, in particular the discussion about the unbiasedness of Akaike’s information criterion (AIC), which confuses the fact that the averaged log-likelihood is an ...
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A prospective study of clinical characteristics and outcomes of acute kidney injury in a tertiary care Centre
... AIC: Akaike ’ s information criterion; AKI: Acute Kidney Injury; ATN: Acute tubular necrosis; CI: Confidence interval; CKD: Chronic kidney disease; CRRT: Continuous renal replacement therapy; ...
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Unraveling the drivers of regional variation in healthcare spending by analyzing prevalent chronic diseases
... Second, we studied the extent to which demand and supply factors explained variation in healthcare spending at the individual and regional level. For all samples sep- arately, to identify the contribution of the ...
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Evaluation of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Quality of Life (IBS-QOL) questionnaire in diarrheal-predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients
... , Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), and Schwartz’s Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) were used as indicators of model fit; smaller values are generally considered ...
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<p>Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene Variants Confer Potential Vulnerability to Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Saudi Community</p>
... less Akaike information criterion (AIC) value that corresponded to the minimal expected entropy was adopted to assess the best model of ...’ s t-test and the chi-square test were used to ...
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ASSESSING RISK FACTORS OF BUSINESS FAILURE IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR: A COUNT DATA APPROACH FROM SWEDEN
... Traditional estimation methods are based on Ordinary Least Square (OLS) techniques and derived models, such as Generalized Least Square (GLS) and Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM), respectively (Hill et al., 2008). ...
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Forecasting incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease using BP neural networks in Jiangsu province, China
... superscript s indicates seasonal period (s = 12 in this ...Third, Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian in- formation criterion (BIC) are conducted to access the ...
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Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Italy, 1861 2003
... the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and the Schwarz’s Bayesian Information Criterion ...Schwarz’s criterion (SIC) and the Ng-Perron sequential t ...
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Determining the Effective Factors on Gastric Cancer Using Frailty Model in South-East and North of Iran
... Background and Purpose: Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of mortality in Iran after cardiovascular diseases and accidents. The aim of the present study was to assess survival and it’s affecting factors in ...
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Predictive modeling in pediatric traumatic brain injury using machine learning
... AIG: Akaike criterion; AUC: Area under the ROC curve; BIC: Bayesian information criterion; CATCH: Canadian assessment of tomography for childhood head injury; CHALICE: Children ’ s head ...
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Aid effectiveness in the small island developing states of the South Pacific
... The evolving concerns and perceptions of the South Pacific have had a significant impact on the type of assistance Australia has delivered to the region. During the 1960s and 1970s the Australian Government adopted an ...
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Predicting health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5 L) and capability wellbeing (ICECAP-A) in the context of opiate dependence using routine clinical outcome measures: CORE-OM, LDQ and TOP
... with information about the most efficient use of resources in order to maximise the health gained for every unit of currency ...’ s work on capabilities allowed for a conceptualization of wellbeing through ...
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Optimising the FIT: risk adjusted colorectal cancer screening using routine data
... 7 which may add a further dimension to a risk based prediction model to improve colorectal cancer screening. For instance, data are available on, symptoms, diagnoses, prescriptions, laboratory test results, lifestyle ...
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Generalized Linear Models in Vehicle Insurance
... Actuaries in insurance companies try to fi nd the best model for an estimation of insurance premium. It depends on many risk factors, e.g. the car characteristics and the profi le of the driver. In this paper, an analysis ...
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The latent structure of post traumatic stress disorder among Arabic speaking refugees receiving psychiatric treatment in Denmark
... Data Analysis was performed with the Mplus software (Version 7.31, [33]). We treated the HTQ items as ordinal variables, following arguments of [5], and based on indica- tions of ceiling effects in the current data (see ...
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Modelling multiple thresholds in meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies
... There are a number of published systematic reviews where several studies reported more than one threshold and the corresponding values of sensitivity and specificity, and also the thresholds were provided (see for ...
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Refining and testing the diagnostic accuracy of an assessment tool (PAT POPS) to predict admission and discharge of children and young people who attend an emergency department : protocol for an observational study
... Patients and their families will experience no difference to their service and will suffer no additional physical or psychological risk and Parents advising the study design were clear that it would be inappropriate to ...
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