In longitudinal studies with a set of continuous or ordinal repeated response
variables it may be convenient to summarise the outcome as a threshold
event. Then, the time to this event becomes of interest. This is ...
In recent years the tangent distance approach of Simard et al (1993) to
pattern recognition tasks such as handwritten character recognition has
proven successful. Simard's distance measure could be made locally invariant ...
One hundred and thirty seven previously untreated outpatients
with first and second degree haemorrhoids were
allocated at random to treatment by infrared coagulation
(n=66) or rubber band ligation (n= 71). Complete ...