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4. Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

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This article is published in Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-statistics in Society.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 1092 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Medical research.

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Three essays on entrepreneurship and alternative economic development policies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity.S.S...................................................................................................................S.A.S., S.A.,S.
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Incidence of leprosy in Firozabad district (Uttar Pradesh).

TL;DR: The present study suggests that incidence rate of leprosy is significantly higher among persons of above 15 years, in females, among contacts of paucibacillary/multibACillary disease, in areas where >3 leproSy cases were found and in Tundla, Narkhi and Aravon blocks in Firozabad district.
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Additive Cox proportional hazards models for next-generation sequencingdata

TL;DR: An important aim of this thesis is to propose a way to combine the clinical covariate as fixed predictors with CNAs genomics windows as smoothing terms using the penalized additive Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) model.

Modelling the survival of elite Australian Rules Footballers

TL;DR: In this paper, the length of player careers is modelled using Survival Analysis and hazard functions were constructed for the cohort of players who were first drafted between years 1995 and 2008, and a Cox regression was run to determine how career length is affected by draft rank.
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Overall Survival and Updated Results for Sunitinib Compared With Interferon Alfa in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: Sunitinib demonstrates longer overall survival compared with IFN-alpha plus improvement in response and progression-free survival in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic RCC, highlighting an improved prognosis in patients with RCC in the era of targeted therapy.
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Survival and Prognostic Stratification of 670 Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: Five prognostic factors for predicting survival were identified and used to categorize patients with metastatic RCC into three risk groups, for which the median survival times were separated by 6 months or more.