Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interaction plays a critical role for complex diseases. The primary limitation of logistic regressions (LR) in testing SNP–SNP interactions is that coefficient ...

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The application of data mining algorithms in animal weight prediction has emerged as a vital tool for modern livestock management. Advanced techniques such as Classification and Regression Trees (CART ...

In many applications, interest focuses on assessing the relationship between a predictor and a multivariate outcome variable, and there may be prior knowledge about the shape of the regression curves.