Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Qingxia (Cindy) Chen"
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Schlueter, David Jeffrey (2018-11-27)Department: BiostatisticsThis dissertation broadly focuses on the advancement and extension of Bayesian methods for multivariate survival analysis with applications in larger data settings. Increased sample information allows researchers to develop ...
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Lanser, Austin Marcus (2015-03-31)Department: BiostatisticsA general rule of thumb for survival analysis is to have at least 15 events per variable in order to produce reliable inference in terms of accuracy and precision of regression coefficient estimates. Sometimes, even well ...
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D'Agostino McGowan, Lucy (2018-03-28)Department: BiostatisticsWhile estimators that incorporate both direct covariate adjustment and inverse probability weighting have drawn considerable interest, their finite sample properties have been challenged in seminal papers, such as Freedman ...
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Giganti, Mark Joseph (2018-08-29)Department: BiostatisticsObservational data from electronic health records (EHRs) are prone to errors which are often correlated across multiple variables. One strategy to assess EHR data quality is to compare the research study data to the original ...