Risk assessment and evaluation of predictions [on October 12 - 14, 2011, the Biostatistics and Risk Assessment Center (BRAC) and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the University of Maryland hosted an international conference entitled "Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Predictions"]

Risk assessment in lifetime data alalysis: Non-proportionality of hazards in the competing risks framework ; Semiparametric inference on the absolute risk reduction and the restricted mean survival difference ; Connecting threshold regression and accelerated failure time models ; Residuals and funct...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lee, Mei-Ling Ting (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, Heidelberg u.a. Springer 2013
Schriftenreihe:Lecture notes in statistics 210 : proceedings
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Zusammenfassung:Risk assessment in lifetime data alalysis: Non-proportionality of hazards in the competing risks framework ; Semiparametric inference on the absolute risk reduction and the restricted mean survival difference ; Connecting threshold regression and accelerated failure time models ; Residuals and functional form in accelerated life regression ; Neyman, Markov processes and survival analysis ; Quantiles of residual survivalEvaluation of predictions: Methods for evaluating prediction performance of biomarkers and tests ; Estimating improvements in prediction with matched case-control designs ; ROC analysis for multiple markers with tree-based classification ; Assessing discrimination of risk prediction rules in a clustered data setting ; Time-dependent AUC with right-censored data : a survey ; Subgroup specific incremental value of new markers for risk prediction -- Applications: Assessing the effects of imprinting and maternal genotypes on complex genetic traits ; Competing risks models and breast cancer : a brief review ; Quantifying relative potency in dose-response studies ; Development and validation of exposure biomarkers to dietary contaminants mycotoxins : a case for aflatoxin and impaired child growth ; Pharmaceutical risk assessment and predictive enrichment to maximize benefit and minimize risk : issues in product life cycle evaluation ; A multiple imputation approach for the evaluation of surrogate markers in the principal stratification causal inference framework ; Mapping return values of extreme wind speeds ; Decision analysis methods for selecting consumer services with attribute value uncertainty ; Evaluating incremental values form new predictors with net reclassification improvement in survival analysis.
Beschreibung:Literaturangaben
Beschreibung:XI, 445 S.
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235 mm x 155 mm
ISBN:9781461489801
978-1-4614-8980-1