Field walking tests are commonly employed to evaluate exercise capacity, assess prognosis
and evaluate treatment response in chronic respiratory diseases. In recent years, there has …

… where B is the variance between the means from the m parallel chains, W is the average of
… Slowly mixing samplers will initially have B much larger than W, because the chain starting …

… Regarding changes in HRQOL, the previous panel concluded that there was B level strength
of evidence supporting the recommendation that “pulmonary rehabilitation improves health-…

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the management
of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American Thoracic Society (…

We consider the problem of comparing complex hierarchical models in which the number of
parameters is not clearly defined. Using an information theoretic argument we derive a …

Among the many uses of hierarchical modeling, their application to the statistical analysis of
spatial and spatio-temporal data from areas such as epidemiology And environmental …

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) integration methods enable the fitting of models of
virtually unlimited complexity, and as such have revolutionized the practice of Bayesian data …

… If σ2 is small (ie, our prior knowledge is imprecise relative to the data information), B is close
to 0 and the estimate is moved very little toward the prior mean. As we show in Chapter 5, …

This systematic review examined the measurement properties of the 6-min walk test (6MWT),
incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) and endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) in adults with …

A solution to multivariate state-space modeling, forecasting, and smoothing is discussed. We
allow for the possibilities of nonnormal errors and nonlinear functionals in the state equation…