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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Statistical methods for using meta-analysis to plan future research

Roloff, Verena Sandra January 2012 (has links)
No description available.
2

Modelling multivariate survival data using semiparametric models

李友榮, Lee, Yau-wing. January 2000 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Statistics and Actuarial Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
3

Analysis of time-to-event data including frailty modeling.

Phipson, Belinda. January 2006 (has links)
There are several methods of analysing time-to-event data. These include nonparametric approaches such as Kaplan-Meier estimation and parametric approaches such as regression modeling. Parametric regression modeling involves specifying the distribution of the survival time of the individuals, which are commonly chosen to be either exponential, Weibull, log- normal, log-logistic or gamma distributed. Another well known model that does not require assumptions about the hazard function to be made is the Cox proportional hazards model. However, there may be deviations from proportional hazards which may be explained by unaccounted random heterogeneity. In the early 1980s, a series of studies showed concern with the possible bias in the estimated treatment e®ect when important covariates are omitted. Other problems may be encountered with the traditional proportional hazards model when there is a possibility of correlated data, for instance when there is clustering. A method of handling these types of problems is by making use of frailty modeling. Frailty modeling is a method whereby a random e®ect is incorporated in the Cox pro- portional hazards model. While this concept is fairly simple to understand, the method of estimation of the ¯xed and random e®ects becomes complicated. Various methods have been explored by several authors, including the Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm, pe- nalized partial likelihood approach, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, Monte Carlo EM approach and di®erent methods using Laplace approximation. The lack of available software is problematic for ¯tting frailty models. These models are usually computationally extensive and may have long processing times. However, frailty modeling is an important aspect to consider, particularly if the Cox proportional hazards model does not adequately describe the distribution of survival time. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.
4

On the use of multiple imputation in handling missing values in longitudinal studies

Chan, Pui-shan, 陳佩珊 January 2004 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Medical Sciences / Master / Master of Medical Sciences
5

Semiparametric analysis of interval censored survival data

Long, Yongxian., 龙泳先. January 2010 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Statistics and Actuarial Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
6

From 'tree' based Bayesian networks to mutual information classifiers : deriving a singly connected network classifier using an information theory based technique

Thomas, Clifford S. January 2005 (has links)
For reasoning under uncertainty the Bayesian network has become the representation of choice. However, except where models are considered 'simple' the task of construction and inference are provably NP-hard. For modelling larger 'real' world problems this computational complexity has been addressed by methods that approximate the model. The Naive Bayes classifier, which has strong assumptions of independence among features, is a common approach, whilst the class of trees is another less extreme example. In this thesis we propose the use of an information theory based technique as a mechanism for inference in Singly Connected Networks. We call this a Mutual Information Measure classifier, as it corresponds to the restricted class of trees built from mutual information. We show that the new approach provides for both an efficient and localised method of classification, with performance accuracies comparable with the less restricted general Bayesian networks. To improve the performance of the classifier, we additionally investigate the possibility of expanding the class Markov blanket by use of a Wrapper approach and further show that the performance can be improved by focusing on the class Markov blanket and that the improvement is not at the expense of increased complexity. Finally, the two methods are applied to the task of diagnosing the 'real' world medical domain, Acute Abdominal Pain. Known to be both a different and challenging domain to classify, the objective was to investigate the optiniality claims, in respect of the Naive Bayes classifier, that some researchers have argued, for classifying in this domain. Despite some loss of representation capabilities we show that the Mutual Information Measure classifier can be effectively applied to the domain and also provides a recognisable qualitative structure without violating 'real' world assertions. In respect of its 'selective' variant we further show that the improvement achieves a comparable predictive accuracy to the Naive Bayes classifier and that the Naive Bayes classifier's 'overall' performance is largely due the contribution of the majority group Non-Specific Abdominal Pain, a group of exclusion.
7

Risk-evaluation in clinical diagnostic studies: ascertaining statistical bounds via logistic regression of medical informatics data

Unknown Date (has links)
The efforts addressed in this thesis refer to applying nonlinear risk predictive techniques based on logistic regression to medical diagnostic test data. This study is motivated and pursued to address the following: 1. To extend logistic regression model of biostatistics to medical informatics 2. Computational preemptive and predictive testing to determine the probability of occurrence (p) of an event by fitting a data set to a (logit function) logistic curve: Finding upper and lower bounds on p based on stochastical considerations 3. Using the model developed on available (clinical) data to illustrate the bounds-limited performance of the prediction. Relevant analytical methods, computational efforts and simulated results are presented. Using the results compiled, the risk evaluation in medical diagnostics is discussed with real-world examples. Conclusions are enumerated and inferences are made with directions for future studies. / by Alice Horn Dupont. / Thesis (M.S.C.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
8

Informative drop-out models for longitudinal binary data

Chau, Ka-ki., 周嘉琪. January 2003 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Statistics and Actuarial Science / Master / Master of Philosophy
9

Uses and misuses of common statistical techniques in current clinical biomedical research

Rifkind, Geraldine Lavonne Freeman, 1931- January 1974 (has links)
No description available.
10

Flexible models of time-varying exposures

Wang, Chenkun 05 1900 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / With the availability of electronic medical records, medication dispensing data offers an unprecedented opportunity for researchers to explore complex relationships among longterm medication use, disease progression and potential side-effects in large patient populations. However, these data also pose challenges to existing statistical models because both medication exposure status and its intensity vary over time. This dissertation focused on flexible models to investigate the association between time-varying exposures and different types of outcomes. First, a penalized functional regression model was developed to estimate the effect of time-varying exposures on multivariate longitudinal outcomes. Second, for survival outcomes, a regression spline based model was proposed in the Cox proportional hazards (PH) framework to compare disease risk among different types of time-varying exposures. Finally, a penalized spline based Cox PH model with functional interaction terms was developed to estimate interaction effect between multiple medication classes. Data from a primary care patient cohort are used to illustrate the proposed approaches in determining the association between antidepressant use and various outcomes. / NIH grants, R01 AG019181 and P30 AG10133.

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