Background Sleep-disordered breathing is a common condition associated with adverse
health outcomes including hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The overall objective of …

Rationale: Cross-sectional epidemiologic studies show an association between sleep-disordered
breathing and hypertension, but only one cohort study has examined sleep-disordered …

Context More than 6000 healthy US individuals every year undergo nephrectomy for the
purposes of live donation; however, safety remains in question because longitudinal outcome …

The standard confidence intervals for proportions and their differences used in introductory
statistics courses have poor performance, the actual coverage probability often being much …

… b The occipital regions were combined and divided into left and right portions for the ROI …
b The occipital regions were combined and divided into left and right portions for the ROI …

… Summing up over i and dividing by I in b k α i = b ′ k α ′ i , we obtain b k α 0 = b ′ k α 0 , …
b x + m e − b x + n e − 2 b x must have four real roots. Differentiating twice, 2 b 2 n e − b x − l b …

The Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) is a comprehensive landmark study of sleep and its
impacts on health outcomes. A primary metric of the SHHS is the in-home polysomnogram, …

Cigarette smoking has been associated with a high prevalence of sleep-related complaints.
However, its effects on sleep architecture have not been fully examined. The primary …

… 4B illustrates the distributions of global FD/DVARS correlations post-scrubbing. Consistent
… The spatial distribution of the 2 clusters are presented in B), showing that ROIs with higher …

… To estimate (17), we use the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm developed by Caffo and Booth
(… We prove only part b of the lemma; the proof of part a is similar. Without loss of generality, …