Browsing Mathematics, Statistics & Physics by Publisher "Blackwell Publishing Ltd"

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    • Analysis of spatial data with a nested correlation structure 

      Adegboye O.A.; Leung D.H.Y.; Wang Y.-G. ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      Spatial statistical analyses are often used to study the link between environmental factors and the incidence of diseases. In modelling spatial data, the existence of spatial correlation between observations must be ...

    • Assessing spatial confounding in cancer disease mapping using R 

      Azevedo, Douglas R. M.; Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar; Prates, Marcos O.; Abdel-Salam, Abdel-Salam G.; Garcia, Dina ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2020 , Article)
      Background: Exploring spatial patterns in the context of cancer disease mapping (DM) is a decisive approach to bring evidence of geographical tendencies in assessing disease status and progression. However, this framework ...

    • Enhanced remediation of Cr6+ in bacterial-assisted floating wetlands 

      Akram, Aysha; Tara, Nain; Khan, Muhammad Asaf; Abbasi, Saddam Akber; Irfan, Muhammad; ... more authors ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2020 , Article)
      Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) is reported to have negative effects on fauna and flora. The present study establishes plant-bacterial synergism in floating wetlands (FWs) for the maximum removal of Cr6+ from the contaminated ...

    • Prevalence and correlates of autism spectrum disorder in Qatar: a national study 

      Alshaban F.; Aldosari M.; Al-Shammari H.; El-Hag S.; Ghazal I.; ... more authors ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      Background Few epidemiological data on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exist for Arabic countries. We conducted the first survey of ASD in Qatar, a population with high consanguinity level. Methods This cross‐sectional ...