Research case studies
Explore adolescent health, quantile regression and other statistical methods through journal articles and a clearly identified preprint co-authored by Dr Arash Ardalan.
Adolescent research and statistical methods
Browse adolescent-health examples or focus on quantile regression. Each case links to its source and explains the methods, findings and limitations.
6 research case studies
- Research case studyBMC Pediatrics · 2022
Evaluating a prediction model for body composition
A research example of building predictions from routine measurements and evaluating them against a reference measurement.
Bayesian networks and validation
Read the case study - Research case studyPreprintResearch Square · 2021
Adolescent body fat: associations across percentiles
A preprint example of using quantile regression to examine associations at different conditional body fat percentiles.
Quantile regression
Read the case study - Research case studyBMC Pediatrics · 2020
Analysing adolescent body measurements together
A school-based research example of modelling related outcomes while accounting for a hierarchical study structure.
Multivariate multilevel modelling
Read the case study - Research case studyArchives of Osteoporosis · 2021
Exploring non-linear relationships in adolescent bone research
A research example of using flexible models to examine how the shape of an association changes across a measurement range.
Generalised additive models
Read the case study - Research case studyTraffic Injury Prevention · 2021
Quantile regression for behaviour questionnaire scores
A published example of examining associations across questionnaire-score distributions in a study of motorcyclists.
Quantile regression and covariance analysis
Read the case study - Research case studyCancer Informatics · 2024
Modelling time to breast cancer recurrence
A research example of comparing time-to-event models and interpreting associations in an observational study.
Survival analysis and model comparison
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