Theory and practice of risk assessment : ICRA 5, Tomar, Portugal, 2013 /: ICRA 5, Tomar, Portugal, 2013. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: ICRA5
• Further Information: Note: Christos P. Kitsos, Teresa A. Oliviera, Alexandros Riga, Sneh Gulati, editors.
• Editors: Kitsos, Christos Par, 1951-; Oliveira, Teresa; Rigas, Alexandros G; Gulati, Sneh
• Other Names: International Conference on Risk Analysis, 5th
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Introduction; Part IRisk Methods for Bioinformatics; Generalized Information Criteria for the Best Logit Model; 1 Introduction; 2 Entropy Type Information Measures; 3 Generalized Fisher's Information and Relative Risk; 3.1 Algorithm; 3.2 Application; 4 Discussion; References; Fractal Case Study for Mammary Cancer: Analysis of Interobserver Variability; 1 Introduction; 2 Case Study; 2.1 Jarque-Bera-Statistic; 2.2 Skewness and Kurtosis; 2.3 Depth-Plot; 3 Graphical Analysis for Variance. 3.1 Simple Discrimination Between Masthopathy and Mammary Cancer Based on the Box-Counting Dimension3.2 Testing for Normality of the Groups; 4 Discussion; References; On Analytical Methods for Cancer Research; 1 Introduction; 2 Data Analysis; 3 Conclusions; References; Modelling Times Between Events with a Cured Fraction Using a First Hitting Time Regression Model with Individual Random Effects; 1 Introduction; 2 Model Definition and Estimation; 2.1 The Model; 2.2 The Likelihood; 2.3 The MCMC; 2.4 Model Selection Criteria; 3 The Nature of the Cured Fraction; 4 Case Study; 4.1 The Data. 4.2 Results4.3 Model Selection; 5 Conclusions; References; Acceleration, Due to Occupational Exposure, of Time to Onset of a Disease; 1 Introduction; 2 Motivation of the Choice of FHT Model; 2.1 Preliminary Studies; 2.2 FHT Model; 3 The Data Set; 3.1 Description of the Data Set; 3.2 Specific Problems Due to the Data Set; 4 Data Analysis; 4.1 Preliminary Studies; 4.2 Acceleration Due to Occupational Exposure; 4.3 The Case-Control Weighed Log-likelihood; 4.4 Model Selection by Cross Validation; 4.5 Model Estimation; 5 Conclusion; References. Transformations of Confidence Intervals for Risk Measures?1 Data Structures and Risk Measures; 2 Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for RR and OR; 3 Transformations of Confidence Intervals: An Instructive Example; 4 Conclusion; References; Discrete Compound Tests and Dorfman's Methodology in the Presence of Misclassification; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Group/Compound Tests; 1.2 Classification and Prevalence Rate Estimation; 1.3 Misclassification Evaluation; 2 A Proposal to Measure the Quality of the Individual Test; 3 Methodologies for the Compound Tests; 3.1 The Usual Methodology -- M1. 3.2 Alternative Methodologies -- M2 and M24 Simulation; 4.1 Simulation Settings; 4.2 Results and Discussion; 5 Final Remarks; References; A Maximum Likelihood Estimator for the Prevalence Rate Using Pooled Sample Tests; 1 Introduction; 2 The Binomial Model; 3 ML Estimators in Several Group Testing Procedures; 3.1 Hierarchical Algorithms; 3.2 Array-Based Group Testing Algorithms; 4 Final Remarks; References; On Intra-individual Variations in Hair Minerals in Relation to Epidemiological Risk Assessment of Atopic Dermatitis; 1 Introduction; 2 Methods; 2.1 Intra-individual Variance.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 302.12; Statistics; Risk assessment -- Congresses; Risk management -- Congresses; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Risk assessment; Risk management; Business & Economics -- Statistics; Mathematics -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Probability & statistics; Medical -- Biostatistics; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319180298; 3319180290; 3319180282; 9783319180281
• Related ISBNs: 9783319180281
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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