Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical and Technical Systems

I.Cox Models, Analyses, and Extensions

1. Extended Cox and Accelerated Models in Reliability, with General Censoring and Truncation
Catherine Huber-Carol, Mikhail Nikulin

2. Corrected Score Estimation in the Cox Regression Model with Misclassified Discrete Covariates
David M. Zucker, Donna Spiegelman

3. A Varying-Coefficient Hazards Regression Model for Multiple Cross-Effect
Hong-Dar Isaac Wu

4. Closure Properties and Diagnostic Plots for the Frailty Distribution in Proportional Hazards Models
P. Economou, C. Caroni

5. Multivariate Survival Data With Censoring
Shulamith Gross, Catherine Huber-Carol

II.Reliability Theory—Degradation Models

6. Virtual (Biological) Age Versus Chronological Age
Maxim Finkelstein

7. A Competing Risks Model for Degradation and Traumatic Failure Times
Vincent Couallier

8. Generalized Birth and Death Processes as Degradation Models
Vladimir Rykov

9. Nonperiodic Inspections to Guarantee a Prescribed Level of Reliability
C. T. Barker, M. J. Newby

10. Optimal Incomplete Maintenance for Weibull Failure Processes
Waltraud Kahle

11. Are Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Models Preferable to General-Order Statistics Models for Software Reliability Estimation?
Subrata Kundu, Tapan K. Nayak, Sudip Bose

12. Multistate System Reliability Assessment by Using the Markov Reward Model
Anatoly Lisnianski, Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin, Yi Ding

III.Inferential Analysis

13. Asymptotic Certainty Bands for Kernel Density Estimators Based upon a Bootstrap Resampling Scheme
Paul Deheuvels, Gérard Derzko

14. Estimation of Rescaled Distribution
H. Läuter, M. Nikulin, V. Solev

15. Nested Plans for Sequential Change Point Detection—The Parametric Case
Paul Feigin, Gregory Gurevich, Yan Lumelskii

16. Sampling in Survival Analysis and Estimation with Unknown Selection Bias and Censoring
Agathe Guilloux

17. Testing the Acceleration Function in Lifetime Models
Hannelore Liero, Matthias Liero

18. Recent Achievements in Modified Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Testing
Vassilly Voinov, Roza Alloyarova, Natalie Pya

19. Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Pareto Distribution
Sneh Gulati, Samuel Shapiro

20. Application of Inverse Problems in Epidemiology and Biodemography
A. Michalski

IV.Analysis of Censored Data

21. A Sampling-Based Chi-Squared Test for Interval-Censored Data
M. L. Calle, G. Gómez

22. Semiparametric Regression Models for Interval-Censored Survival Data, With and Without Frailty Effects
Philip Hougaard

23. Exact Likelihood Inference for an Exponential Parameter Under Progressive Hybrid Censoring Schemes
A. Childs, B. Chandrasekar, N. Balakrishnan

V.Quality of Life

24. Sequential Analysis of Quality-of-Life Measurements Using Mixed Rasch Models
Véronique Sébille, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Mounir Mesbah

25. Measuring Degradation of Quality-of-Life Related to Pollution in the SEQAP Study
S. Deguen, C. Segala, M. Mesbah

26. A Bayesian Ponders “The Quality of Life”
Mounir Mesbah, Nozer D. Singpurwalla

VI.Inference for Processes

27. On the Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Some Continuous Time Processes
Sergueï Dachian, Yury A. Kutoyants

28. Nonparametric Estimation of Integral Functionals for Semi-Markov Processes with Application in Reliability
Nikolaos Limnios, Brahim Ouhbi

29. Estimators for Partially Observed Markov Chains
Ursula U. Müller, Anton Schick, Wolfgang Wefelmeyer

30. On Solving Statistical Problems for the Stochastic Processes by the Sufficient Empirical Averaging Method
Alexander Andronov, Evgeniy Chepurin, Asaf Hajiyev

VII.Designs

31. Adaptive Designs for Group Sequential Clinical Survival Experiments
Eric V. Slud

32. Optimal Two-Treatment Repeated Measurement Designs for Two Periods
Stratis Kounias, Miltiadis Chalikias

VIII.Measures of Divergence, Model Selection, and Survival Models

33. Discrepancy-Based Model Selection Criteria Using Cross-Validation
Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Simon L. Davies, Andrew A. Neath

34. Focused Information Criteria for the Linear Hazard Regression Model
Nils Lid Hjort

35. On Measures of Information and Divergence and Model Selection Criteria
Alex Karagrigoriou, Takis Papaioannou

36. Entropy and Divergence Measures for Mixed Variables
Konstantinos Zografos

IX.New Statistical Challenges

37. Clinical Trials and the Genomic Evolution: Some Statistical Perspectives
Pranab Kumar Sen

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Keywords: MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General MAT029000