by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 5, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
June 5, 2024 The authors have come up with a proportional risk model to assess treatment effect in time-to-event data. One thing they first discussed which is important to note is that relative risk (RR) and hazard ratio (HR) are definitely not the same...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 22, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
May 22, 2024 The authors have presented a review of current survival methods and contemporary methods that could help handle some of the issues that arise with current methods. The authors then went through description of current methods. They discussed censoring and...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 8, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Usha Govindarajulu
May 8, 2024 The main goal of this article was to effectively assess COVID-19 rumor patterns and causes of their persistence using survival analysis methods to thereby reduce the misinformation during the pandemic. Their data came from 754 instances of rumors from...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Apr 25, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
April 24, 2024 The motivation was assessing continuous risk scores with biomarker distributions. The authors defined that the precision-recall curve is a plot of the true positive rate (which is also known as recall or sensitivity) against the positive predictive...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Apr 10, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
April 10, 2024 The authors aimed to assess overall survival rates for colorectal cancer (CRC) at 3 years and also identify the associated prognostic factors amongst patients in Morocco using a machine learning approach, a random survival forest (RSF). CRC has...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 27, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
March 27, 2024 In this article, the authors described their Schemper-Henderson measure to account for explained variation for survival outcomes, extended to allow for competing risks. They defied explained variation as the relative gain in predictive accuracy when...
