Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Hypothesis Testing in Nonlinear Function on Scalar Regression with
  Application to Child Growth Study   We propose a kernel machine based hypothesis testing procedure in nonlinear
function-on-scalar regression model. Our research is motivated by the Newborn
Epigenetic Study (NEST) where the question of interest is whether a
pre-specified group of toxic metals or methylation at any of 9 differentially
methylated regions (DMRs) is associated with child growth. We take the child
growth trajectory as the functional response, and model the toxic metal
measurements jointly using a nonlinear function. We use a kernel machine
approach to model the unknown function and transform the hypothesis of no
effect to an appropriate variance component test. We demonstrate our proposed
methodology using a simulation study and by applying it to analyze the NEST
data.

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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc