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Springer Probability Statistics and Modelling in Public Health by M.S. Nikulin, Daniel Commenges, Catherine Huber-Carol
Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health consists of refereed contributions by expert biostatisticians that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics discussed include models based on Markov and semi-Markov processes, multi-state models, models and methods in lifetime data analysis, accelerated failure models, design and analysis of clinical trials, Bayesian methods, pharmaceutical and environmental statistics, degradation models, epidemiological methods, screening programs, early detection of diseases, and measurement and analysis of quality of life._x000D_ Table of contents : - _x000D_
Preface_x000D_
Forward and Backward Recurrence Times and Length Biased Sampling: Age Specific Models (M. Zelen)_x000D_
Difference between Male and Female Cancer Rates: How Can It Be Explained? (K. Arbeev, S. Ukraintseva, L. Arbeeva, A. Yashin)_x000D_
Non-parametric Estimation in Degradation-Renewal-Failure Models (V. Bagdonavicius, A. Bikelis, V. Kazakevicius, M. Nikulin)_x000D_
The Impact of Dementia and Sex on Disablement in the Elderly (P. Barberger-Gateau, V. Bagdonavicius, M. Nikulin, O. Zdorova-Cheminade)_x000D_
Nonparametric Estimation for Failure Rate Functions of Discrete Time semi-Markov Processes (V. Barbu, N. Limnios)_x000D_
Some Recent Results on Joint Degradation and Failure Time Modeling (V. Couallier)_x000D_
Estimation in a Markov Chain Regression Model with Missing Covariates (D. Dabrowska, R. Elashoff, D. Morton)_x000D_
Tests of Fit Based on Products of Spacings (P. Deheuvels, G. Derzko)_x000D_
A Survival Model with Change-Point in Both Hazard and Regression Parameters (D. Jean-Francois)_x000D_
Mortality in Varying Environments (M.S. Finkelstein)_x000D_
Goodness of Fit of a Joint Model for Event Time and Nonignorable Missing Longitudinal Quality of Life Data (S. Gulati, M. Mesbah)_x000D_
Three Approaches for Estimating Prevalence of Cancer with Reversability. Application to Colorectal Cancer (C. Gras, J.P. Daures, B. Tretarre)_x000D_
On Statistics of Inverse Gamma Process as a Model of Wear (B.P. Harlamov)_x000D_
Operating Characteristics of Partial Least Squares in Right-Censored Data Analysis and Its Application in Predicting the Change of HIV-I RNA (J. Huang, D. Harrington)_x000D_
Inference for a General semi-Markov Model and a Sub-Model for Independent Competing Risks (C. Huber-Carol, O. Pons, N. Heutte)_x000D_
Estimation of Density for Arbitrarily Censored and Truncated Data (C. Huber, V. Solev, F. Vonta)_x000D_
Statistical Analysis of Some Parametric Degradation Models (W. Kahle, H. Wendt)_x000D_
Use of Statistical Modeling Methods in Clinical Practice (V. Klyuzhev, V. Ardashev, N. Mamchich, M. Barsov, S.Glukhova)_x000D_
Degradation-Threshold-Shock Models (A. Lehmann)_x000D_
Comparisons of Test Statistics Arising from Marginal Analyses of Multivariate Survival Data (Q. Li, S. Lagakos)_x000D_
Nonparametric Estimation and Testing in Survival Models (H. Lauter, H. Liero)_x000D_
Selecting a Semi-Parametric Estimator by the Expected log-likelihood (B. Liquet, D. Commenges)_x000D_
Imputing Responses That Are Not Missing (U. Muller, A. Shick, W. Wefelmeyer)_x000D_
Bivariate Decision Processes (M. Newby)_x000D_
Weighted Logrank Tests with Multiple Events (C. Pincon, O. Pons)_x000D_
Explained Variation and Predictive Accuracy in General Parametric Statistical Models: The Role of Model Misspecification (S. Rosthoj, N. Keiding)_x000D_
Optimization of Breast Cancer Screening Modalities (Y. Shen, G. Parmigiani)_x000D_
Sequential Analysis of Quality of Life Rasch Measurements (V. Sebille, M. Mesbah)_x000D_
Three Types of Hazard Functions Curves Described (G. Sidorovich, S. Shamansky, V. Pop, O. Rukavicin)_x000D_
On the Analysis of Fuzzy Life Times and Quality of Life Data (R. Viertl)_x000D_
Statistical Inference for Two-Sample and Regression Models with Heterogeneity Effect: A Collected-Sample Perspective (H.-D. Wu)_x000D_
Failure Distributions Associated with General Compound Renewal Damage Processes (S. Zacks)_x000D_
Index_x000D_