Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences

- Preface

- Contributors

- List of Tables

- List of Figures

Part I: Prognostic Studies and General Epidemiology

- Systematic Review of Multiple Studies of Prognosis: The Feasibility of Obtaining Individual Patient Data

- On Statistical Approaches for the Multivariate Analysis of Prognostic Marker Studies

- Where Next for Evidence Synthesis of Prognostic Marker Studies? Improving the Quality and Reporting of Primary Studies to Facilitate Clinically Relevant Evidence-Based Results

Part II: Pharmacovigilance

- A Sentinel Event Method for Monitoring Unanticipated Rare Adverse Events

- Spontaneous Reporting System Modeling for the Evaluation of Automatic Signal Generation Methods in Pharmacovigilance

Part III: Quality of Life

- Latent Covariates in Generalized Linear Models: A Rasch Model Approach

- Sequential Analysis of Quality of Life Measurements with the Mixed Partial Credit Model

- A Parameter Degradation Model Used in Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Quality of Life

- Agreement Between Two Ratings with Different Ordinal Scales

Part IV: Survival Analysis

- The Role of Correlated Frailty Models in Studies of Human Health, Ageing, and Longevity

- Prognostic Factors and Prediction of Residual Survivor for Hospitalized Elderly Patients

- New Models and Methods for Survival Analysis of Experimental Data

- Uniform Consistency for Conditional Lifetime Distribution Estimators Under Random Right-Censorhip

- Sequential Estimation for the Semiparametric Additive Hazard Model

- Variance Estimation of a Survival Function with Doubly Censored Failure Time Data

Part V: Clustering

- Statistical Models and Artificial Neural Networks: Supervised Classification and Prediction via Soft Trees

- Multilevel Clustering for Large Databases

- Neural Networks: An Application for Predicting Smear Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis

- Assessing Drug Resistance in HIV Infection Using Viral Load Using Segmented

From the reviews:"This edited volume is an outgrowth of an 'International Conference on Statistical Methods' so-called in the Health Sciences in 2004. It is a well presented volume with lists of tables and figures. ... Clearly this volume covers a wide range of topics pertaining to statistical methods in the area of health sciences. ... In summary, it is a welcome addition to the literature of statistical science." (Technometrics, Vol. 49 (3), August, 2007)