Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences

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Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences Applications to Cancer and AIDS Studies, Genome Sequence Analysis, and Survival Analysis / edited by Jean-Louis Auget, N. Balakrishnan, Mounir Mesbah, Geert Molenberghs. -
XLII, 540 p. online resource. - (Statistics for Industry and Technology, ) Content notes : 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. 9780817645427 * Distribution (Probability theory. Mathematics. Statistics. Mathematical statistics. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Applications of Mathematics. Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. Statistical Theory and Methods. * Auget, Jean-Louis., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBalakrishnan, N., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMesbah, Mounir., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMolenberghs, Geert., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt * Title * Series