GAMLSS; statistical modelling; machine learning; BAMLSS; GAMboostLSS

Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios M., Kneib, Thomas, Klein, Nadja, Mayr, Andreas and Heller, Gillian Z. (2024) Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape: A Distributional Regression Approach, with Applications. Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probability Mathematics, 56 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1009410069 (doi:10.1017/9781009410076)

GLI reference equations, GAMLSS, lung function reference equations, segmented linear regression, lower limit of normal, prediction accuracy

Rigby, Robert, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-1707, Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2407-5704, Zeileis, Achim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-3766, Stanojevic, Sanja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7931-8051, Heller, Gillian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1270-1499, de Bastiani, Fernanda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8532-639X, Kneib, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3390-0972, Mayr, Andreas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-9732, Stauffer, Reto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3798-5507 and Umlauf, Nikolaus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-9803 (2026) Letter to the editor refuting “Debunking the GAMLSS myth: simplicity reigns in pulmonary function diagnostics”. Respiratory Medicine, 251:108557. ISSN 0954-6111 (Print), 1532-3064 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2025.108557)

P-splines; GAMLSS; Box-Cox t distribution; zero-adjusted distribution; zero-heavy distribution; semi-continuous distribution

Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios M., Rigby, Robert A., Heller, Gillian Z. and De Bastiani, Fernanda (2023) P-splines and GAMLSS: a powerful combination, with an application to zero-adjusted distributions. Statistical Modelling, 23 (5-6). pp. 510-524. ISSN 1471-082X (Print), 1477-0342 (Online) (doi:10.1177/1471082X231176635)

alanine aminotransferase, albumin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, dispersion and shape of the distribution, gamma-glutamyl transferase, generalized additive model for location scale and shape, liver function tests, maternal characteristics, pregnancy, reference ranges, total bilirubin

Judah, Hannah R., Rigby, Robert A., Stasinopoulos, Mikis D., Pateras, Konstantinos, Rahim, Mussarat N., Heneghan, Michael A., Nicolaides, Kypros H. and Kametas, Nikos A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-6038 (2025) Reference ranges for liver function tests in pregnancy controlling for maternal characteristics. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG). ISSN 0002-9378 (Print), 1097-6868 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2025.06.056)

centile smoothing, distributional regression models, GAMLSS, growth reference charts, LMS method

Rigby, Robert, A., Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2407-5704 and Cole, T. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5711-8200 (2026) Improved centile estimation by transformation and/or adaptive smoothing of the explanatory variable. Statistics in Medicine, 45 (3-5):e70414. ISSN 0277-6715 (Print), 1097-0258 (Online) (doi:10.1002/sim.70414)

correlation coefficient, maximum correlation, permutation test

Brito, Alisson L., De Bastiani, Fernanda, Stasinopoulos, Mikis D., Rigby, Robert A., Manghi, Roberto F. and Kneib, Thomas (2025) Variables Exploración y comparación de medidas de asociación no lineal por pares para variables continuas ("Exploring and Comparing Pairwise Nonlinear Association Measures for Continuous Variables"). Revista Colombiana de Estadística, 48 (3). pp. 509-528. ISSN 0120-1751 (Print), 2389-8976 (Online) (doi:10.15446/rce.v48n3.123662)