Browsing by Author "Forné, Carles"

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    • Assessing the impact of early detection biases on breast cancer survival of Catalan women 

      Roso-Llorach, Albert; Forné, Carles; Macià, Francesc; Galceran, Jaume; Marcos-Gragera, Rafael; Rué, Montserrat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya, 2014-12)
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      Survival estimates for women with screen-detected breast cancer are affected by biases specific to early detection. Lead-time bias occurs due to the advance of diagnosis, and length-sampling bias because tumors detected ...

    • Bayesian joint ordinal and survival modeling for breast cancer risk assessment 

      Armero, Carmen; Forné, Carles; Rué, Montserrat; Forte Deltell, Anabel; Perpiñán Fabuel, Hèctor; Gómez Melis, Guadalupe; Bare Mañas, Maris (2016-12-10)
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      We propose a joint model to analyze the structure and intensity of the association between longitudinal measurements of an ordinal marker and time to a relevant event. The longitudinal process is defined in terms of a ...