| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Semiparametric time-varying coefficient regression model for longitudinal data with censored time origin |
2012 |
113 |
In preventive HIV vaccine efficacy trials, thousands of HIV-negative volunteers are randomized to receive vaccine or placebo, and are monitored for HIV infection. The primary objective is to assess vaccine efficacy to prevent HIV infection. An import... |
| Statistical analysis of mark-specific proportional hazards model |
2011 |
672047 |
Competing risks occur frequently in survival analysis, and in some cases, the competing risks are not discrete. In this dissertation, we develop some statistical inferences to analyze continuous competing risks.
In Chapter 2, inspired by the HIV v... |
| ANALYSIS OF FAILURE TIME DATA WITH MISSING AND INFORMATIVE AUXILIARY COVARIATES |
2011 |
243 |
In this dissertation we use Cox’s regression model to fit failure time data with continuous informative auxiliary variables in the presence of a validation subsample. The work is motivated by a common problem of missing or mismeasured covariates in s... |