Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences Applications to Cancer and AIDS Studies, Genome Sequence Analysis, and Survival Analysis /
Statistical methods have become increasingly important and now form integral part of research in the health sciences. Many sophisticated methodologies have been developed for specific applications and problems. This self-contained volume, an outgrowth of an "International Conference on Statisti...
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Boston, MA :
Birkhäuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Statistics for Industry and Technology,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4542-7 |
Table of Contents:
- Prognostic Studies and General Epidemiology
- Systematic Review of Multiple Studies of Prognosis: The Feasibility of Obtaining Individual Patient Data
- On Statistical Approaches for the Multivariable Analysis of Prognostic Marker Studies
- Where Next for Evidence Synthesis of Prognostic Marker Studies? Improving the Quality and Reporting of Primary Studies to Facilitate Clinically Relevant Evidence-Based Results
- Pharmacovigilance
- Sentinel Event Methods for Monitoring Unanticipated Adverse Events
- Spontaneous Reporting System Modelling for the Evaluation of Automatic Signal Generation Methods in Pharmacovigilance
- Quality of Life
- Latent Covariates in Generalized Linear Models: A Rasch Model Approach
- Sequential Analysis of Quality of Life Measurements with the Mixed Partial Credit Model
- A Parametric Degradation Model Used in Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Quality of Life
- Agreement Between Two Ratings with Different Ordinal Scales
- Survival Analysis
- The Role of Correlated Frailty Models in Studies of Human Health, Ageing, and Longevity
- Prognostic Factors and Prediction of Residual Survival for Hospitalized Elderly Patients
- New Models and Methods for Survival Analysis of Experimental Data
- Uniform Consistency for Conditional Lifetime Distribution Estimators Under Random Right-Censorship
- Sequential Estimation for the Semiparametric Additive Hazard Model
- Variance Estimation of a Survival Function with Doubly Censored Failure Time Data
- Clustering
- Statistical Models and Artificial Neural Networks: Supervised Classification and Prediction Via Soft Trees
- Multilevel Clustering for Large Databases
- Neural Networks: An Application for Predicting Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- Assessing Drug Resistance in HIV Infection Using Viral Load Using Segmented Regression
- Assessment of Treatment Effects on HIV Pathogenesis Under Treatment By State Space Models
- Safety and Efficacy Assessment
- Safety Assessment Versus Efficacy Assessment
- Cancer Clinical Trials with Efficacy and Toxicity Endpoints: A Simulation Study to Compare Two Nonparametric Methods
- Safety Assessment in Pilot Studies When Zero Events Are Observed
- Clinical Designs
- An Assessment of Up-and-Down Designs and Associated Estimators in Phase I Trials
- Design of Multicentre Clinical Trials with Random Enrolment
- Statistical Methods for Combining Clinical Trial Phases II And III
- SCPRT: A Sequential Procedure That Gives Another Reason to Stop Clinical Trials Early
- Models for the Environment
- Seasonality Assessment for Biosurveillance Systems
- Comparison of Three Convolution Prior Spatial Models for Cancer Incidence
- Longitudinal Analysis of Short-Term Bronchiolitis Air Pollution Association Using Semiparametric Models
- Genomic Analysis
- Are There Correlated Genomic Substitutions?
- Animal Health
- Swiss Federal Veterinary Office Risk Assessments: Advantages and Limitations of The Qualitative Method
- Qualitative Risk Analysis in Animal Health: A Methodological Example.