It is usually considered that the proportion of handicapped people grows with age. Namely, the older the man/woman, the more the level of disability he/she suffers. However, empirical evidence shows that this assessment is not always true, or at least, it is not true in the Spanish population....

Microtubules are part of the structural network within a cell's cytoplasm, providing structural support as well as taking part in many of the cellular processes. A large body of data provide evidence that dynamics of microtubules in a cell is reponsible for the performance of many critical...

In many areas of medical research, especially in studies that involve paired organs, a bivariate ordered categorical response should be analyzed. Using a bivariate continuous distribution as the latent variable is an interesting strategy for analyzing these data sets. In this context, the...

Clustering is a common and important issue, and finite mixture models based on the normal distribution are frequently used to address the problem. In this article, we consider a classification model and build a mixture model around it. A good assessment of the allocation of observations and...

Taylor and Thompson [15] introduced a clever algorithm for simulating multivariate continuous data sets that resemble the original data. Their approach is predicated upon determining a few nearest neighbors of a given row of data through a statistical distance measure, and subsequently combining...