by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 31, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
January 31, 2024 In an article that appeared in Biometrical Journal, Hu described a new random-intercept accelerated failure time model with Bayesian additive regression trees (riAFT-BART), which can be used to draw causal inferences on population treatment effectts...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Aug 30, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
August 30, 2023 In this article that appeared in a special issue in the Biometrical Journal, Chen et al describe how restricted mean survival time (RMST), an alternative representation of survival time, can be adapted to have clustering. They were motivated by...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 9, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Machine Learning, Usha Govindarajulu
June 7, 2023 The authors reviewed methods for complex survival data in terms of frailty models, like the recent advances and R packages. They explored areas of clustered outcomes, competing risks, illness-death model. They did admit their review did not cover two...