Objective To determine whether neutrophils contribute to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
progression, we tested the association of baseline neutrophil count on ALS survival, whether …

Many methods have been developed for analyzing survival data which are commonly right-
censored. These methods, however, are challenged by complex features pertinent to the …

Left truncation commonly occurs in many areas, and many methods have been proposed in
the literature for the analysis of various types of left‐truncated failure time data. For the …

Abstract Model selection plays a critical role in statistical inference and a large literature has
been devoted to this topic. Despite extensive research attention on model selection …

Interval-censored failure time data arise commonly in various scientific studies where the
failure time of interest is only known to lie in a certain time interval rather than observed …

Background Failure time data frequently occur in many medical studies and often
accompany with various types of censoring. In some applications, left truncation may occur …

Typically, electronic health record data are not collected towards a specific research
question. Instead, they comprise numerous observations recruited at different ages, whose …

Length‐biased data occur often in many scientific fields, including clinical trials,
epidemiology surveys and genome‐wide association studies, and many methods have …

Interval‐censored data often arise in prospective studies involving periodical follow‐up for
monitoring the failure event occurrence. In addition to censoring, left truncation also occurs if …

Semi-parametric transformation models provide a general and flexible class of models for
regression analysis of failure time data and many methods have been developed for their …