Competing risks; a practical perspective.9780470870686 Competing risks; a practical perspective. Pintilie, Melania. John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
2006 224 pages $90.00 Hardcover Statistics in practice QA273 Pintilie (Ontario Cancer Institute The Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI), Canada's first dedicated cancer hospital, opened officially and began to receive patients in 1958, although its research divisions had begun work a year earlier. , Canada) describes a statistical methodology for the analysis of competing risk, drawing most of her examples from medical research. Her opening chapter introduces the topic non-mathematically, followed by a presentation of general techniques for survival analysis. Subsequent chapters address mathematical definitions of competing risks, descriptive methods for competing risks data, testing a covariate covariate predictors during the allocation of experimental units in a randomized design. , modeling in the presence of competing risks, calculating the power in the presence of competing risks, and issues such as the conditional probability conditional probability the probability that event A occurs, given that event B has occurred. Written P(AB). function and parametric modeling Using the computer to design objects by modeling their components with real-world behaviors and attributes. Typically specialized for either mechanical design or building design, a parametric modeler is aware of the characteristics of components and the interactions between them. . A final chapter present competing risk problems to be worked out. Appendixes provide some further theoretical background and provide guidance on competing risk analysis using common statistical software. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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