Research Catalog

Title

Advances in statistical methods for the health sciences : applications to cancer and AIDS studies, genome sequence analysis, and survival analysis / Jean-Louis Auget [and others], editors.

Publication

Boston ; Berlin : Birkhäuser, 2007.

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Description

xl, 540 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Statistics for industry and technology

Uniform Title

Statistics for industry and technology.

Subjects

• Statistics
• Epidemiology
• Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
• Survival Analysis
• Statistics as Topic > methods
• Biometry

Genre/Form

Statistics.

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Contents

1. Systematic review of multiple studies of prognosis : the feasibility of obtaining individual patient data / D. G. Altman, M. Trivella, F. Pezzella, A. L. Harris and U. Pastorino -- 2. On statistical approaches for the multivariable analysis of prognostic marker studies / N. Hollander and W. Sauerbrei -- 3. Where next for evidence synthesis of prognostic marker studies? : improving the quality and reporting of primary studies to facilitate clinically relevant evidence-based results / R. D. Riley, K. R. Abrams, P. C. Lambert, A. J. Sutton and D. G. Altman -- 4. Sentinel event method for monitoring unanticipated adverse events / P. A. Lachenbruch and J. Wittes -- 5. Spontaneous reporting system modelling for the evaluation of automatic signal generation methods in pharmacovigilance / E. Roux, F. Thiessard, A. Fourrier, B. Begaud and P. Tubert-Bitter -- 6. Latent covariates in generalized linear models : a Rasch model approach / K. B. Christensen -- 7. Sequential analysis of quality of life measurements with the mixed partial credit model / V. Sebille, T. Challa and M. Mesbah -- 8. A parametric degradation model used in reliability, survival analysis, and quality of life / M. Nikulin, L. Gerville-Reache and S. Orazio -- 9. Agreement between two ratings with different ordinal scales / S. Natarajan, M. B. McHenry, S. Lipsitz, N. Klar and S. Lipshultz -- 10. The role of correlated frailty models in studies of human health, ageing, and longevity / A. Wienke, P. Lichtenstein, K. Czene and A. I. Yashin -- 11. Prognostic factors and prediction of residual survival for hospitalized elderly patients / M. L. Calle, P. Roura, A. Arnau, A. Yanez and A. Leiva -- 12. New models and methods for survival analysis of experimental data / G. V. Semenchenko, A. I. Yashin, T. E. Johnson and J. W. Cypser -- 13. Uniform consistency for conditional lifetime distribution estimators under random right-censorship / P. Deheuvels and G. Derzko -- 14. Sequential estimation for the semiparametric additive hazard model / L. Bordes and C. Breuils -- 15. Variance estimation of a survival function with doubly censored failure time data / C. Zhu and J. Sun -- 16. Statistical models and artificial neural networks : supervised classification and prediction via soft trees / A. Ciampi and Y. Lechevallier -- 17. Multilevel clustering for large databases / Y. Lechevallier and A. Ciampi -- 18. Neural networks : an application for predicting smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis / A. M. Santos, B. B. Pereira, J. M. Seixas, F. C. Q. Mello and A. L. Kritski -- 19. Assessing drug resistance in HIV infection using viral load using segmented regression / H. Liang, W.-Y. Tan and X. Xiong -- 20. Assessment of treatment effects on HIV pathogenesis under treatment by state space models / W.-Y. Tan, P. Zhang, X. Xiong and P. Flynn -- 21. Safety assessment versus efficacy assessment / M. A. Foulkes -- 22. Cancer clinical trials with efficacy and toxicity endpoints : a simulation study to compare two nonparametric methods / A. Letierce and P. Tubert-Bitter -- 23. Safety assessment in pilot studies when zero events are observed / R. E. Carter and R. F. Woolson -- 24. An assessment of up-and-down designs and associated estimators in phase I trials / H. K. T. Ng, S. G. Mohanty and N. Balakrishnan -- 25. Design of multicentre clinical trials with random enrolement / V. V. Anisimov and V. V. Fedorov -- 26. Statistical methods for combining clinical trial phases II and III / N. Stallard and S. Todd -- 27. SCPRT : a sequential procedure that gives another reason to stop clinical trials early / X. Xiong, M. Tan and J. Boyett -- 28. Seasonality assessment for biosurveillance systems / E. N. Naumova and I. B. MacNeill -- 29. Comparison of three convolution prior spatial models for cancer incidence / E.-A. Sauleau, M. Musio, A. Etienne and A. Buemi -- 30. Longitudinal analysis of short-term bronchiolitis air pollution association using semiparametric models / S. Willems, C. Segala, M. Maidenberg and M. Mesbah -- 31. Are there correlated genomic substitutions? / M. Karnoub, P. K. Sen and F. Seillier-Moiseiwitsch -- 32. Swiss federal veterinary office risk assessments : advantages and limitations of the qualitative method / R. Hauser, E. Breidenbach and K. D. C. Stark -- 33. Qualitative risk analysis in animal health : a methodological example / B. Dufour and F. Moutou.

ISBN

• 9780817643683 (hd.bd.)
• 0817643680 (hd.bd.)

LCCN

9780817643683

OCLC

• ocm77548082
• SCSB-5303898

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries