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" Probability, statistics, and modelling in public health "
edited by Mikhail Nikulin, Daniel Commenges, Catherine Huber.
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655093
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Probability, statistics, and modelling in public health\ edited by Mikhail Nikulin, Daniel Commenges, Catherine Huber.
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New York, NY :: Springer Science+Business Media,, c2006.
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xxiv, 479 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm.
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0387260226 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780387260228
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: 9780387260235
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: 0387260234
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" ... a special symposium, Probabilitíes, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health, was organized in Marvin's honor ... on September 22-23, 2003, in Bordeaux."--Pref.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Forward and backward recurrence times and length biased sampling: age specific models -- Difference between male and female cancer incidence rates: how can it be explained? Non-parametric estimation in degradation-renewal-failure models -- The impact of dementia and sex on the disablement in the elderly -- Nonparametric estimation for failure rate functions of discrete time semi-markov processes -- Some recent results on joint degradation and failure time modeling -- Estimation in a markov chain regression model with missing covariates -- Tests of fit based on products of spacings -- A survival model with change-point in both hazard and regression parameters -- Mortality in varying environment -- Goodness of fit of a joint model for event time and nonignorable missing longitudinal quality of life data -- Three approaches for estimating prevalence of cancer with reversibility. Application to colorectal cancer -- On statistics of inverse gamma process as a model of wear -- Operating characteristics of partial least squares in right-censored data analysis and its application in predicting the change of HIV-I RNA -- Inference for a general semi-markov model and a sub-model for independent competing risks -- Estimation of density for arbitrarily censored and truncated data -- Statistical analysis of some parametric degradation models -- Use of statistical modelling methods in clinical practice -- Degradation-threshold-shock models -- Comparisons of test statistics arising from marginal analyses of multivariate survival data -- Nonparametric estimation and testing in survival models -- Selecting a semi-parametric estimator by the expected log-likelihood -- Imputing responses that are not missing -- Bivariate decision processes -- Weighted logrank tests with multiple events -- Explained variation and predictive accuracy in general parametric statistical models: the role of model misspecification -- Optimization of breast cancer screening modalities -- Sequential analysis of quality of life rasch measurements -- Three types of hazard functions curves described -- On the analysis of fuzzy life times and quality of life data -- Statistical inference for two-sample and regression models with heterogeneity effect: a collected-sample perspective -- Failure distributions associated with general compound renewal damage processes.
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Public health-- Statistical methods.
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Medical statistics.
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Probability measures.
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Models, Statistical.
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Probability.
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Public Health.
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Nikulin, M. S., (Mikhail Stepanovich)
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Commenges, Daniel.
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Huber, Catherine.
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