Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Hinde, John"
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Aspects of modeling and application of survival-type data
Fallah, Lida (NUI Galway, 2018-02)Survival analysis is collection of methods for analyzing data where the outcome of interest is the time to an event and some of the observations are censored. Survival data can arise naturally from studies on, machines' ... -
Bayesian imputation of right censored data in time-to-event studies
Moghaddam, Shirin (NUI Galway, 2018-03-20)In time-to-event studies subjects are followed until the event of interest has happened. Subjects who do not experience the event are referred to as censored. Due to censoring, methods of plotting individual survival ... -
Extensions and Applications of Survival Trees in Medical Data
Alvarez-Iglesias, Alberto (2012-09-17)Survival trees are a non-parametric modeling strategy that can be included in the area of statistical modeling. These type of models can be used as an alternative to Cox proportional hazards models for the analysis of ... -
Observational studies, matching and propensity scores: Applied to colorectal cancer data
Dooley, Cara (NUI Galway, 2020-04-15)Many studies in biostatistics are concerned with comparing two groups of patients, a treatment and a control group, to determine the effect of the treatment. Observational studies typically make use of available data, such ...