Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Fourth Edition, describes the analysis of
survival data, illustrated using a wide range of examples from biomedical research. Written …

Importance Dental caries is the world's most prevalent noncommunicable disease and a
source of health inequity; school dental sealant programs are a common preventive …

Objective: To quantify the space-time dimensions of human mobility in relationship to the risk
of HIV acquisition. Methods: We used data from the population cohort located in a high HIV …

Background It is common to use the mid-point between the latest-negative and earliest-
positive test dates as the date of the infection event. However, the accuracy of the mid-point …

Interval-censored multivariate failure time data arise when there are multiple types of failure
or there is clustering of study subjects and each failure time is known only to lie in a certain …

Using real data sets throughout, Survival Analysis in Medicine and Genetics introduces the
latest methods for analyzing high-dimensional survival data. It provides thorough coverage …

Variable selection or feature extraction is fundamental to identify important risk factors from a
large number of covariates and has applications in many fields. In particular, its applications …

Objectives To describe the temporal development of and risk factors for the occurrence of
unfavourable urodynamic parameters during the first year after spinal cord injury (SCI) …

Multivariate interval-censored failure time data occur when a failure time study involves
several related failure times of interest and only interval-censored observations are …

The purpose of this study is to understand the contributing factors associated with completed
suicides among the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) population, especially …