Choosing profile double-sampling designs for survival estimation with application to President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief evaluation

Choosing profile double-sampling designs for survival estimation with application to PEPFAR evaluation

Most studies that follow subjects over time are challenged by having some subjects who dropout. Double-sampling is a design that selects, and devotes resources to intensively pursue and find a subset of these dropouts; then uses data obtained from these to adjust naïve estimates, which are potentially biased by the dropout. Existing methods to estimate survival from double-sampling assume a ran...

The need for double-sampling designs in survival studies: an application to monitor PEPFAR.

In 2007, there were 33.2 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS/WHO, 2007). In May 2003, the U.S. President announced a global program, known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to address this epidemic. We seek to estimate patient mortality in PEPFAR in an effort to monitor and evaluate this program. This effort, however, is hampered by loss to fol...

a new type-ii fuzzy logic based controller for non-linear dynamical systems with application to 3-psp parallel robot

abstract type-ii fuzzy logic has shown its superiority over traditional fuzzy logic when dealing with uncertainty. type-ii fuzzy logic controllers are however newer and more promising approaches that have been recently applied to various fields due to their significant contribution especially when the noise (as an important instance of uncertainty) emerges. during the design of type- i fuz...

Partnerships for blood safety in Africa: the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

channel estimation for mimo-ofdm systems

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