Background: Environmental and biomedical researchers frequently encounter laboratory data constrained by a lower limit of detection (LOD). Commonly used methods to address these leftcensored data, ...

An approximate Bayesian method is developed to study the joint mortality rate of two cancer sites over several geographic areas. A conditionally independent two-stage hierarchical model is used to ...

This paper illustrates the validation of a mortgage prepayment forecasting model using a dynamic bivariate-choice regression method. The results demonstrate that the dynamic bivariate-choice ...