Does Cox analysis of a randomized survival study yield a causal treatment effect?

OO Aalen, RJ Cook, K Røysland - Lifetime data analysis, 2015 - Springer
Statistical methods for survival analysis play a central role in the assessment of treatment
effects in randomized clinical trials in cardiovascular disease, cancer, and many other fields …

[HTML][HTML] Decreased risk of acute myocardial infarction in stroke patients receiving acupuncture treatment: a nationwide matched retrospective cohort study

SF Chuang, CC Shih, CC Yeh, HL Lane… - … and alternative medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background Whether acupuncture protects stroke patients from acute myocardial infarction
(AMI) has not been studied previously. The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk …

Dynamic path analysis–a useful tool to investigate mediation processes in clinical survival trials

S Strohmaier, K Røysland, R Hoff, Ø Borgan… - Statistics in …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
When it comes to clinical survival trials, regulatory restrictions usually require the application
of methods that solely utilize baseline covariates and the intention‐to‐treat principle …

Alcohol‐related morbidity and mortality within siblings

G Søndergaard, M Osler, AMN Andersen… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To estimate the association between educational status and alcohol‐related somatic
and non‐somatic morbidity and mortality among full siblings in comparison with non‐related …

Life History Analysis with Response-Dependent Observation

Y Zhong - 2015 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
This thesis deals with statistical issues in the analysis of dependent failure time data under
complex observation schemes. These observation schemes may yield right-censored …