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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Cox proportional hazard model"”.
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A Cox proportional hazards-cash flow model for bank failure prediction
This research uses the Cox proportional hazard model and bank cash flow information to determine whether adding cash flow information will improve current bank failure prediction methods. In two published papers it has been shown that the Cox model performs as well as other models with respect to …
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Predictors of Contralateral Breast Cancer In Brca Negative Women
… at between the two groups. Using univariable Cox Proportional Hazard model, thirteen statistically interesting risk factors were found, defined as having a p-value under 0.2. Multivariable stepwise Cox Proportional Hazard model found four statistically significant variables out of the thirteen …
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Natural History and Affecting Factors on Progression of Prehypertension and Prediabetes
… 615 per 1,000 person-year respectively. In the Cox proportional hazard model, changes of CVD risk factors such as abstinence from drink, participating in a regular exercise, and reducing body mass index (BMI) level, and controlling total cholesterol (TC) level played a protective role on …
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The Influence of Diversity on Government Durations in Parliamentary Systems
… cabinets across 12 countries and applied Cox proportional-hazard modeling to examine the relationships between age and education and the duration of governments in parliamentary systems. The independent variables were age and education level for members of parliamentary governments across …
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ATTRITION OR RETENTION? EXPLORING 4-YEAR AND 6-YEAR OUTCOMES AMONG NAVY ENLISTED SAILORS
… and Kaplan-Meier Survival curve analysis using Cox Proportional Hazard Model to identify predictors of Sailors’ attrition and retention behaviors. Results for 4-year attrition models show that women with either very high (college) or low (GED) educational attainment and Sailors in technical and …
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Optimal survival trees ensemble
… conditional inference forest, bagging and Cox proportional hazard model. In addition to improved predictive performance, the proposed method also reduces the number of survival trees in the ensemble as compared to the other tree based methods. Furthermore, the method is implemented in an …
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Empirical study on the motivations of bidders' second tender offer contests
… offer attempt are examined. A multinomial logit model is used to examine the rationales for bidders attempting a second acquisition. The results are consistent with the management entrenchment and the convergence-of-interest hypotheses. Also, a binary logit model is applied to examine the …
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Essays on Industrial Development
… to 2015. Employing Poisson regression and the Cox proportional hazard model, it finds that firm efficiency is critical for survival. Technological proficiency lowers exit rates, increases firm longevity, and enhances market retention. The study underscores the necessity of efficiency-driven …
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Investment Strategies under Uncertainty: Theory and evidence of preemption in case of geographical market entrance
… market entry option. The theoretical model analyses the impact of asymmetries of the competing firms such as follower entry barrier and asymmetric profitability on the optimal market entry timing and firm values. The duopoly model shows the existence of three types of equilibrium …
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Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mortality and survival in fenced reserves as part of a managed metapopulation across South Africa
… predicted to influence cheetah survival using a Cox proportional hazard model. Predation, mostly by lions (Panthera leo) accounted for 39% of known mortalities. However, the presence of spotted hyena (Crucota crucuta) posed the greatest threat to survival. Contrary to my prediction, translocation …
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Approaches for Handling Time-Varying Covariates in Survival Models
Survival models are used in analysing time-to-event data. This type of data is very common in medical research. The Cox proportional hazard model is commonly used in analysing time-to-event data. However, this model is based on the proportional hazard (PH) assumption. Violation of this assumption …
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Comparison of clinical outcome after revascularization versus conservative treatment in patients with borderline fractional flow reserve measurements
… occurred in the PCI group. Using Cox proportional hazard model, there was no difference in lesion-related events between Conservative-group and PCI-group (hazard ratio 0.303, 95% CI 0.5-2.025, P =0.218). CONCLUSIONS: In coronary lesions with borderline FFR, revascularization did …
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Semi-parametric models for response times and response accuracy in computerized testing
… responses. This broadens the scope of potential modeling approaches because response times can be analyzed in addition to analyzing the responses themselves. Current models for response times,however, mainly focus on parametric models that have the advantage of conciseness, but may suffer from a …
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Firm growth, survival and productivity in South Africa
… and specifies a simple logit binary survival model that allows for firm and industry specific characteristics as determinants of survival. The model is improved upon using the non-parametric Kaplan-Meier product limit method and estimating Cox proportional hazard model. The results indicate …
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Hidden Consequences of Remittances: The micro impact of remittance flows in the Albanian remittance-receiving households' behavior
… and non-remittance-receiving households. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to capture the effects of remittances. The second part the dissertation focuses on the impact of remittances on labor market participation using propensity score matching. This part of the dissertation relies on …
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Association of Binge Drinking and Resting Heart Rate with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality in Older Men: The Kangwha Cohort Study
… March 1985 to December 31, 2005. We estimated hazard ratios (HR) for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality by binge drinking and resting heart rate using the Cox proportional hazard model after adjusting confounding factors. Binge drinkers and heavy binge drinkers were defined as having ≥6 …
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Risk preferences and the poverty trap : a look at technology uptake amongst small-scale farmers in the Western Cape
… both the levels, using a multinomial logit model, and the timing, using a cox proportional hazard model, of uptake. The results from the real life data show that the effects of the risk preferences tend to differ depending on the type of technology, and this is true for both samples. One …
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Comparative Effectiveness of Second Generation Antidepressants on Cognition and Dementia in the Elderly
… score-adjusted Repeated Measures Mixed Model was used to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of SSRIs, SNRIs and Tetracyclics with respect to cognition. A multiple propensity score-adjusted Cox Proportional Hazards Model was used to examine comparative effectiveness of SSRIs, SNRIs …
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Improving Emergency Department Patient Flow Through Near Real-Time Analytics
… for developing effective decision support models that exploit near real-time (NRT) information to enhance the "operational intelligence" within hospital Emergency Departments (ED). Approaching from a systems engineering perspective, the study proposes a novel decision support framework for …
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Never Smokers -- Are They More Sensitive to the Respiratory Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution?
… of 3 years and 10 months of follow-up. The Cox proportional hazard model was used for survival analysis, adjusting for a number of potential confounders including age, race, education, body mass index (BMI), time spent outdoors, physical exercise, and dietary patterns. Inverse distance …
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