IPCW estimators have been applied to many types of survival problems such as correcting for non-compliance and dependent censoring in the examination of a beneficial treatment effect on survival [ 17] and non-parametric survival estimation when death is reported with delay [ 11], as in this study.
Due to its flexibility in accommodating different forms of the risk function, the new family is an important tool to be used in a variety of problems in modeling survival data.
Branching theory was first applied in a substantial way to some problems about survival of genetic mutations.
As we have previously indicated, the clinical course and survival of AIPC patients with local problems seem to differ from that of AIPC patients with symptomatic bone metastases (Hernes et al, 2000, 2003).
Flowgraph models are useful in a wide variety of systems engineering and survival analysis problems.
He rejected state socialism as a "dull" and "illogical" doctrine, "little better than a dusty survival of a plan to meet the problems of fifty years ago, based on a misunderstanding of what someone said a hundred years ago".
But policy makers and analysts were quick to caution that the Fed's action did not address the fundamental financial problems threatening the survival of the European currency union.
Seton Hall's law school may be in a tough spot, but there is no reason to think that its problems threaten the survival of the university as a whole.
When, in 1982, the larger business's financial problems threatened the survival of the shop, it was taken over by three devoted employees who bought the stock for £7,000, paid themselves only what they would have got on the dole, relocated to 130 Talbot Road, and revived the shop's fortunes.
Perhaps that's because the problems they confront -- like unemployment, economic growth, crime, racial strife, the survival of the Euro -- perhaps because those problems are so complex, the French -- like other nations -- find it much easier to obsess about other simpler issues.
