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Statistical analysis of multivariate interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A voluminous literature on right-censored failure time data has been developed in the past 30 years. Due to advances in biomedical research, interval censoring has become increasingly common in medical follow-up studies. ...
Statistical analysis of multivariate interval-censored failure time data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Interval-censored failure time data commonly arise in clinical trials and medical studies. In such studies, the failure time of interest is often not exactly observed, but known to fall within some interval. For multivariate ...
Semiparametric analysis of multivariate longitudinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Longitudinal studies are conducted widely in fields such as agriculture and life sciences, business and industry, demography and other social sciences, ...
Statistical analysis for survival data with missing information
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
As a branch of statistics, survival analysis, which is often referred to as "reliability theory" in engineering, has a long history. While in practical problems, some information might be missing. This dissertation discusses ...