With increasing accessibility to geographic information systems (GIS) software, statisticians
and data analysts routinely encounter scientific data sets with geocoded locations. This has …

In the United States, prostate cancer is the third most common cause of death from cancer in
males of all ages, and the most common cause of death from cancer in males over age 75. It …

Epidemiological and biomedical studies often require modeling and analysis for time-
toevent data, where a subject is followed up to an event (eg, death or onset of a disease) or …

We propose a hazard model where dependence between events is achieved by assuming
dependence between covariates. This model allows for correlated variables specific to …

Introduction: The burden of malaria is a major public health concern in Ethiopia. Its dynamics
is being changed by construction of dams which serve either for hydroelectric or irrigation …

In practice, survival data are often grouped into clusters, such as clinical sites, geographical
regions and so on. This clustering imposes correlation among individuals within each …