Neste livro são apresentados conceitos básicos, técnicas não-paramétricas e os principais
modelos probabilísticos e de regressão utilizados na análise de dados de sobrevivência …

Importance Asthma and wheezing begin early in life, and prenatal vitamin D deficiency has
been variably associated with these disorders in offspring. Objective To determine whether …

Background Current therapeutic options for Chagas' disease are limited to benznidazole
and nifurtimox, which have been associated with low cure rates in the chronic stage of the …

In a mathematical approach to hypothesis tests, we start with a clearly defined set of
hypotheses and choose the test with the best properties for those hypotheses. In practice …

Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research, Fourth Edition, describes the analysis of
survival data, illustrated using a wide range of examples from biomedical research. Written …

Background Transplant recipients in whom cutaneous squamous-cell carcinomas develop
are at high risk for multiple subsequent skin cancers. Whether sirolimus is useful in the …

Survival analysis, the analysis of failure time data, is a rapid developing area and a number
of books on the topic have been published in last twenty-five years. However, all of these …

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environmentally safe and proven technology to
suppress wild populations. To further advance its utility, a novel CRISPR-based technology …

For right-censored data perhaps the most commonly used tests are weighted logrank tests,
such as the logrank and Wilcoxon-type tests. In this paper we review several generalizations …

Background Few studies have evaluated whether histopathologic lesions on kidney biopsy
provide prognostic information beyond clinical and laboratory data. Methods We enrolled …