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Developing professional skills at tertiary level: A model to integrate competencies across the curriculum
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Open AccessIn the context of the European Higher Education Area, curriculum design needs to be based on the defined competencies of each degree programs, including both domain specific and professional competencies. In this educational ... -
Effect of changing the copular when choosing the primary endpoint in a Randomized Clinical Trial
(2013)
Conference report
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Some theoretical thoughts when using a composite endpoint to prove the efficacy of a treatment
(2011)
Conference report
Open AccessThis paper discusses, following Gómez and Lagakos (2011) methodology, to what extent is there a gain in efficiency from adding a component event to a relevant endpoint when the treatment effect on this component is not as ... -
Joint modelling analysis of prostate cancer incidence: frequentist and bayesian approaches
(2013)
Conference lecture
Open AccessProstate specific antigen (PSA) is a biomarker for prostate cancer (PCa) that is widely used for PCa screening. Using a database of 2415 men included in the Spanish screening arm of the ERSPC Study, we will use joint ... -
Estimation of survival functions subject to order restrictions
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2013)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis contribution is framed in, and is part of, the Durabiltiy of Building Facades studies carried out in the last decade in the Institut d’Estadística i Matemàtica Aplicada a l’Edificació and Laboratori d’ Edificació at ... -
Longitudinal + reliability = joint modeling
(2013)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe aim of this presentation is to introduce joint modelling techniques for the simultaneous analysis of longitudinal time-varying data and time-to-event data. This is an increasing area of interest for the analysis of ... -
On the design of a survey to measure effective communication in building
(2012)
Conference report
Open AccessAlthough effective communication is identified as a key indicator of project performan ce, communication aspects on contractors’ evaluation are not yet included. This paper aims to review the most relevant contributions ... -
Survival analysis methodology for service live prediction and building maintenance
(FEUP Ediçoes, S.A., 2011)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThis paper deals with, on one hand, the introduction of survival analysis techniques for being used in building maintenance and, on the other hand, the application of this methodology for analyzing a large building stock ... -
Joint modelling of two sequential times to event with longitudinal information
(2011)
Conference lecture
Open AccessIn survival analysis, the lifetimes may be observed in some speci¯ed order, where the time to event Tk, cannot be observed until T1; :::; Tk¡1 have been observed. The present work proposes a joint model of two sequential ... -
Nonlinear transformation models: application to mortality of calves
(2010)
Conference report
Open AccessWe present. an appl ication of the proportional hazard-proportional hazard cure models to evalu ate the environmental and genetic factors that affect both mortality and survival up to weaning of beef calves. We usc the ... -
Estudio de los factores asociados a la pérdida de densidad mineral ósea en pacientes infectados con VIH
(2009)
Conference report
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Agentes causales y factores que predisponen al decaimiento del espárrago en Gavà, Barcelona
(2010)
Conference lecture
Open Access
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