Recent Advances In Biostatistics: False Discovery Rates, Survival Analysis, And Related Topics

This unique volume provides self-contained accounts of some recent trends in Biostatistics methodology and their applications. It includes state-of-the-art reviews and original contributions. The articles included in this volume are based on a careful selection of peer-reviewed papers, authored by eminent experts in the field, representing a well balanced mix of researchers from the academia, R&D sectors of government and the pharmaceutical industry. The book is also intended to give advanced graduate students and new researchers a scholarly overview of several research frontiers in biostatistics, which they can use to further advance the field through development of new techniques and results.

List of contents

A New Adaptive Method to Control the False Discovery Rate; Adaptive Multiple Testing Procedures Under Positive Dependence; A False Discovery Rate Procedure for Categorical Data; A Distribution for P-Values; Conditional Nelson-Aalen and Kaplan-Meier Estimators with the Muller-Wang Boundary Kernel; The Inverse Censoring Weighted Approach for Estimation of Survival Functions from Left and Right Censored Data; Modeling Survival Data Using the Piecewise Exponential Model with Random Time Grid; Analysis of Recurrent Time-to-Event Data Under Dependent Censoring; Efficient Algorithms in Bayesian Binary Regression with Skew-Probit Link; M-Estimation Methods in Heteroscedastic Nonlinear Regression Model; Regression Analysis in Failure Time Mixture Models with Change Points According to Thresholds in a Covariate; Competing Risks Data: Design and Analysis; Comparative Genomic Analysis Using Information Theory; Statistical Modeling for Positron Emission Tomography; Subset Selection in Comparative Selection Trials; Using Latent Class Analysis in Medical Diagnosis.

Product details

• Authors: Sunil K Dhar Et Al Manish Bhattacharjee
• Assisted by: Manish Bhattacharjee (Editor), Manish C Bhattacharjee (Editor), Manish C. Bhattacharjee (Editor), Sunil K Dhar (Editor), Sunil K. Dhar (Editor), Manish C Bhattacharjee (Editor), Sundarraman Subramanian (Editor), Subramanian Sundarraman (Editor), Sunil K Dhar (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2011
• EAN: 9789814329798
• ISBN: 978-981-4329-79-8
• Series: Biostatistics; Series In Biostatistics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MATHEMATICS / Applied, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Applied mathematics, Epidemiology and Medical statistics