Sample surveys are extensively used to provide reliable direct estimates for large areas or domains with enough sample sizes at national and regional levels. However, zones are unplanned domains by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) program and need more sample sizes to produce direct...

The aim of the work is to provide estimates of some poverty rates for domains defined by cross-classifying the Italian population by household typology and administrative region, on the basis of data collected for Italy by the new “European Union – Statistics on Income and Living...

Some baseline patient factors, such as biomarkers, are useful in predicting patients’ responses to a new therapy. Identification of such factors is important in enhancing treatment outcomes, avoiding potentially toxic therapy that is destined to fail and improving the cost-effectiveness of...