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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Discrete-time survival analysis"”.
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Excess Heart Disease Risk Associated with Arthritis in the Canadian General Population
… Manuscript 1 is a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies that estimated risk of incident myocardial infarction (MI) associated with five major types of arthritis. Results showed that MI-risk was consistently increased across arthritis and was partially explained by a …
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Essays on valuing non-market goods in imperfectly competitive markets
… data set along with the econometric technique of discrete time survival analysis is used to estimate the impact of weather on the survival of ski areas over time. Results suggest that changing weather patterns have been an influential factor in the closure of many ski areas throughout the region. …
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The Role of early-life psychological factors in the development of chronic disease: a longitudinal analysis applied to the onset of cancer, diabetes, and asthma in mid-life.
… This study is an epidemiological life-course analysis to test: (1) the hypotheses that early-life psychological factors are linked to later development of chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, and asthma) in mid-life, (2) whether such associations can be explained by pre-existing confounding …
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Comparative Analysis of Discrimination and Calibration Accuracy of Discrete Survival, Random Forests, and Neural Networks in Health-Related Survival Prediction Models
Prediction models for survival analysis are commonly used in biomedical sciences to understand the onset of certain diseases. Traditional statistical models have been employed for the previous years, however, their limitations and inability to handle big data sets has made a way for the …
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Economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals
… in terms of retention and treatment provision. A discrete-time survival analysis has been applied to characterize the time trend of the retention and identify factors associated with the likelihood of a dentist leaving the NHS. We also compare treatments provided by migrant and non-migrant …
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The Louisiana Recovery School District's long term relationship to student dropout and achievement
… The dissertation measured these influences over time (2007-2010). The data collected were derived from Louisiana’s Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) and quantitative data on dropout status from the Louisiana Department of Education Student Information System (SIS) database. To explore the …
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An event history analysis of socio-economic determinants of adult mortality in Namibia
… of the study was to apply an event history discrete time survival analysis approach to elucidate effects of socio-economic factors on adult mortality in Namibia. Specifically I simultaneously estimated the effects of socio-economic determinants on adult mortality in Namibia; as well as …