Quantile regression has become a widely used tool for analysing competing risk data.
However, quantile regression for competing risk data with a continuous mark is still scarce …

An objective of randomized placebo-controlled preventive HIV vaccine efficacy (VE) trials is
to assess the relationship between vaccine effects to prevent HIV acquisition and continuous …

In HIV vaccine efficacy trials, mark-specific hazards models have important applications and
can be used to evaluate the strain-specific vaccine efficacy. Additive hazards models have …

1 Sites to Exclude from Sieve Analyses Due to Unalignability.............. 20 2 Neutralization-
associated AA sites included in the Tier 1 sieve analysis........ 23 3 Sites passing the …

Motivated by the need to assess HIV vaccine efficacy, previous studies proposed an
extension of the discrete competing risks proportional hazards model, in which the cause of …

We propose a competing risks approach to analyse customer behaviours in freemium
products and services. The event of interest is when a customer starts to pay for additional …

Preventive vaccines are an effective public health intervention for reducing the burden of
infectious diseases, but have yet to be developed for several major infectious diseases …

Assessment of vaccine efficacy as a function of the similarity of the infecting pathogen to the
vaccine is an important scientific goal. Characterization of pathogen strains for which …

For survival data, mark variables are only observed at uncensored failure times, and it is of
interest to investigate whether there is any relationship between the failure time and the …

In this dissertation, we investigate the generalized semiparametric varying-coefficient
models for longitudinal data that can flexibly model three types of covariate effects: time …