Background Some countries are exploring policies that might help lower cigarette smoking prevalence to below 5% by 2030. This ...

There is no established procedure for testing for trend with nominal outcomes that would provide both a global hypothesis test and outcome-specific inference. We derive a simple formula for such a ...

When using multinomial logistic regression with warm starts from a previous iteration, the final coefficients in the model are correct, but the intercepts somehow get filled with incorrect numbers ...

ABSTRACT: Burundi faces alarming food insecurity, affecting 41.2% of the population, with a prevalence of malnutrition reaching 55.9%. Micronutrient deficiencies, particularly iron and zinc, affect ...

Background: Since evidence on the relationship between a combination of lifestyle factors and mental health in the Iranian population is limited, this study employed a cross-sectional design which is ...

ABSTRACT: This research delves into the hurdles and strategies aimed at augmenting the market involvement of smallholder carrot farmers in Nakuru County, Kenya. Employing a Multinomial Logit (MNL) ...

Multimorbidity, or the presence of many chronic illnesses, is a worldwide health concern, particularly among older individuals. It raises the risk of early mortality, hospitalization, loss of physical ...

Abstract: In this paper we consider high-dimensional multiclass classification by sparse multinomial logistic regression. We propose first a feature selection procedure based on penalized maximum ...