Functional data arise frequently in biomedical studies, where it is often of interest to investigate the association between functional predictors and a scalar response variable. While functional ...

The health impacts of environmental exposure may not appear at the time when it is measured, but may be delayed and/or last for a long period. This phenomenon is called lagged effect, which is usually ...

We study the profile-kernel and backfitting methods in partially linear models for clustered/longitudinal data. For independent data, despite the potential root-n inconsistency of the backfitting ...

Timing of Aspirin and Other Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use Among Patients With Colorectal Cancer in Relation to Tumor Markers and Survival Between August 2006 and January 2013, data from ...