Background In medical studies with recurrent event data a total time scale perspective is
often needed to adequately reflect disease mechanisms. This means that the hazard …

Retirement is not only an individual decision, it is a decision taken within a family system.
The extent to which estimates of retirement predictors are biased by the clustering of older …

Background The survival of pregnant women is one of great interest of the world and
especially to a developing country like Ethiopia which had the highest maternal mortality …

Two-stage instrumental variable methods are commonly used for estimating average causal
effects in the presence of an unmeasured confounder. In the context of the proportional …

The Statistical Analysis of Multivariate Failure Time Data: A Marginal Modeling Approach
provides an innovative look at methods for the analysis of correlated failure times. The focus …

The dynamics of the wild boar population has become a pressing issue not only for
ecological purposes, but also for agricultural and livestock production. The data related to …

While atypical employment contracts offer flexibility in the labor market, these kinds of
contracts are inherently insecure and may generate stress among affected workers. This …

Purpose Compared with conventional radiation therapy, intensity modulated radiation
therapy (IMRT) may reduce acute toxicity from anal cancer treatment, potentially leading to …

Copula models have become increasingly popular for modelling the dependence structure
in multivariate survival data. The two-parameter Archimedean family of Power Variance …

To address conceptual and methodological shortcomings in the extant literature on student
mobility, this study employs event history modeling to describe and explain how state policy …