Prediction error curves are increasingly used to assess and compare predictions in survival
analysis. This article surveys the R package pec which provides a set of functions for …

Competing risks endpoints are frequently encountered in hematopoietic stem cell
transplantation where patients are exposed to relapse and treatment-related mortality. Both …

Importance The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) showed that intensive
blood pressure control reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the legacy …

Molecular testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the
gold standard for diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the clinical …

This volume examines modern techniques and research problems in the analysis of lifetime
data analysis. This area of statistics deals with time-to-event data which is complicated not …

The availability of geocoded health data and the inherent temporal structure of
communicable diseases have led to an increased interest in statistical models and software …

Purpose: Although matched-sibling donor (MSD) hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation
(HSCT) has an established role in the management of adults with acute lymphoblastic …

Multistate Models for the Analysis of Life History Data provides the first comprehensive
treatment of multistate modeling and analysis, including parametric, nonparametric and …

Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for osteoporosis and bone fracture. Moreover, smoking
causes exposure to cadmium, which is a known risk factor for osteoporosis. It is …

An intermediate-level treatment of Bayesian hierarchical models and their applications, this
book demonstrates the advantages of a Bayesian approach to data sets involving inferences …