In all models, the current age of the woman and her total number of living children were estimated as continuous variables, while region, education, religion, wealth index, exposure to media (radio and television), and residence (urban versus rural) were estimated as categorical independent variables.
We show that special Poisson regression models allow hazard functions to be estimated as continuous functions, which makes it possible to derive and calculate probabilities, expected length of life and expected gain in QALYs.
For use in further calculations, such as variance-stabilized normalization [ 21, 22], it is desirable to represent the various precision estimates as continuous functions, = f(x), where is the estimated precision value, x is the signal level, and f is some function parameterized with a relatively small set of coefficients.
Applying the inversion technique developed by Yabuki and Matsuura (1992) to the excess pore-fluid pressures of the dataset, a static image of the 3-D excess pore-fluid pressure fields can be estimated as a continuous function defined in the mode region with estimation errors (e.g., Terakawa et al. 2012).
BMI-1 mRNA expression is estimated as a continuous variable, and this may increase the ability to detect differences.
Daily alcohol consumption was estimated as a continuous variable (g/day) based on the assumption that the concentrations of alcohol were 5% for beer, 12% for wine, 40% for liquor, and 25% for shochu (distilled spirit).
The log linear regression model was estimated as OOPE was continuous variable and skewed in nature.
Our prospective analysis has confirmed that the predictive accuracy of subsequent radiographic progression is greatly improved by taking into consideration the total inflammatory burden, estimated as the AUC for continuous measures of the DAS28-CRP.
The estimated serum PFOA level at the time of pregnancy was skewed, so we considered serum PFOA estimates as a continuous log-transformed measure, a continuous untransformed measure, and in quintiles of exposure.
Major lesion length (MLL) was estimated as the length of a continuous necrotic area that covered at least half of the stalk diameter.
Finally, fatigue lifetimes of an industrial composite pipe subjected to different varying internal pressure are predicted and its long-term behavior over the span of 50 years of continuous operation is estimated as the dictated requirement by international rules and regulations.
