From a prospective cohort study of 1948 initially human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
uninfected female commercial sex workers followed between 1985 and 1999 in Dakar …

A very general class of multivariate life distributions is considered for analyzing failure time
clustered data that are subject to censoring and multiple modes of failure. Conditional on …

The world's first efficacy trial of a preventive HIV vaccine was completed in 2003. Study
participants who became HIV infected were followed for 2 years and monitored for HIV viral …

The use of empirical likelihood in survival analysis was initiated by Thomas and
Grunkemeier (1975) who derived pointwise confidence intervals for the survival function …

A preventive HIV vaccine (administered to HIV uninfected persons) would help curb the HIV
epidemic if it had one or more of the following effects:(1) to lower susceptibility of vaccinated …

In the evaluation of efficacy of a vaccine to protect against disease caused by finitely many
diverse infectious pathogens, it is often important to assess if vaccine protection depends on …

Armitage, P., McPherson, C. and Rowe, B.(1969), Repeated signi cance tests on
accumulating data, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 132 (2), 235 …

Exact inference for MLR Hirji (1992) Ordered stereotype model Anderson (1984) Cumulative
logit model McCullagh (1980) Likelihood ratio chi-squared test Armitage (1971) Test for …

Competing risks often arise where more than one event compete with each other for a
subject. The cumulative incidence function is a proper summary quantity for analyzing …

Ordered stereotype model Anderson (1984) Cumulative logit model McCullagh (1980)
Likelihood ratio chi-squared test Armitage (1971) Test for trend in odds ratios Breslow et …