Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health

Forward and Backward Recurrence Times and Length Biased Sampling: Age Specific Models.- Difference between Male and Female Cancer Incidence Rates: How Can It Be Explained?.- Non-parametric estimation in degradation-renewal-failure models.- The Impact of Dementia and Sex on the Disablement in the Elderly.- Nonparametric Estimation for Failure Rate Functions of Discrete Time semi-Markov Processes.- Some recent results on joint degradation and failure time modeling.- Estimation in a Markov chain regression model with missing covariates.- Tests of Fit based on Products of Spacings.- A Survival Model With Change-Point in Both Hazard and Regression Parameters.- Mortality in Varying Environment.- Goodness of Fit of a joint model for event time and nonignorable missing Longitudinal Quality of Life data.- Three approaches for estimating prevalence of cancer with reversibility. Application to colorectal cancer.- On statistics of inverse gamma process as a model of wear.- Operating Characteristics of Partial Least Squares in Right-Censored Data Analysis and Its Application in Predicting the Change of HIV-I RNA.- Inference for a general semi-Markov model and a sub-model for independent competing risks.- Estimation Of Density For Arbitrarily Censored And Truncated Data.- Statistical Analysis of Some Parametric Degradation Models.- Use of statistical modelling methods in clinical practice.- Degradation-Threshold-Shock Models.- Comparisons of Test Statistics Arising from Marginal Analyses of Multivariate Survival Data.- Nonparametric Estimation and Testing in Survival Models.- Selecting a semi-parametric estimator by the expected log-likelihood.- Imputing responses that are not missing.- Bivariate Decision Processes.- Weighted Logrank Tests With Multiple Events.- Explained Variation and Predictive Accuracy in General Parametric Statistical Models: The Role of Model Misspecification.- Optimization of Breast Cancer Screening Modalities.- Sequential Analysis of Quality of Life Rasch Measurements.- Three Types of Hazard Functions Curves Described.- On the Analysis of Fuzzy Life Times and Quality of Life Data.- Statistical Inference for Two-Sample and Regression Models with Heterogeneity Effect: A Collected-Sample Perspective.- Failure Distributions Associated With General Compound Renewal Damage Processes.