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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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Auget, Jean-Louis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Balakrishnan, N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mesbah, Mounir (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Molenberghs, Geert (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2007.
Σειρά:Statistics for Industry and Technology
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.